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Quotes
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do
a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?
You've got to start with a plan. When I was in
school, I took architectural drafting and that taught me that everything
starts with a plan. The biggest buildings in the world start with a plan.
So, you've got to start with a plan and figure out what's the easiest way
for me to get where I'm trying to get and what do I need to do to make it
happen? Things put you on a path. So many people get a career or get in
this business and don't know what they want to do next. They have no clue.
Whatever comes along, they jump at it without mapping out and you can make
a lot of mistakes that way. So, I would say start off with a plan and
figure out how you can execute that plan. You've got to have the
determination, the talent and you have to recognize opportunities and
seize the moment.
I thought it was cool. The movies like that
all have their cool parts. The hats are what got me. I was sick of the
hats.
If I'm more of an influence to your son as a
rapper than you are as a father…you got to look at yourself as a parent.
Don't want to hear my
favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll
throw on Luther Vandross.
I try to start kind of
getting physical, you know what I mean? I start playing basketball,
push-up's and just get my body ready for physical-type work.
Rap goes from the egomaniac/player-type bragging to trying to bring awareness to issues. Then it swings back into a gangsta mode.
I've got an edge on me in this one. But who
wouldn't? You're the leader of a motorcycle gang and somebody killed your
brother. I think you got to be extremely pissed to pull it off.
Wars
come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal. (2Pac)
Your buddy comes around on his motorcycle and
you just jump on it and drive around the corner a couple of times and
bring it back. I don't want to fall, you know what I mean? Every time I
get on one I'm like, yeah, I got a lot to live for. Going through the
training just made me feel more confident.
I loved it. I loved it. I'm glad I did it
because it made me a better rider. It made me understand all the little
tricks of the trade and to be able to not get road rash. Nobody wants road
rash.
With XXX, we're trying to triple the
stunts that were in the first one. I love it. That's a movie you're making
on a higher level when you can add stunts and action and choreograph the
whole thing. That's what turns me on the most about everything that I do
or attempt to do is the creative process in it. That's what gets my juices
flowing. It's cool to watch this movie, but it's just as cool to make it
and see all the people coming together to create these amazing things. I
always want to be a part of it. Action movies at that level, when the
director has every toy in the world to play with, I can't wait to work on
that level.
We come from the days when
rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That
doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics,
bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate
you more now than a terrorist threat.
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