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Quotes
 Keeping
it real ain't about carrying a gun or smoking blunts. It's about being
true to yourself and those around you.
I
think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams
wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the
fear.
I
try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip
some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes
instead of eight.
Rollerball
sucked! - discussing one of his movies on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Am
I James Todd Smith now or LL Cool J? Pick a name baby. Pick a name and
ride with it. I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the
same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really
serious about making these movies. You know when you do 25 or 30 movies
and people are still asking you 'how does it feel making the
transition?' you know you're not communicating correctly. So I just put
the James Todd Smith thing there to let people know I was serious. It's
not like I made it Lawrence Cool J or something!.
Since my new focus is acting, ... my primary focus was bringing David Burke's character to life. My focus was artistic.
Hip-hop
can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. I've been training as an
actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean,
the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained. My acting
coach is from the Stanislavsky school. It's real - I act.
I thought it was the greatest opportunity as an actor, ... It's the first time I got to do something a little different. It's an amazing piece of material.
The Chinese have a saying, ... 'Beware the man with the Buddha's mouth and the snake's heart.' This is the perfect example of that.
I'm
happy to be black. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and
I'm thankful to God for that. I am a real person that cares about his
art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want
to touch people and give. As a black man, my hope is that I can touch
more and more people all over the world of different races and different
colours. And I think eventually, if I just stay on this path, we'll get
there.
One
thing I'm not gonna do, because I'm black, is suddenly say 'you know
what, I can't play a villain!' You don't need to be the good guy to get
a good message out. I'm not going to limit myself like that. I just want
to play good roles and be able to touch a lot of people.
To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day.
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
I've achieved basically all of the goals - by the grace of God - that I wanted to in music.
He said, 'That's our secret: Kill them with kindness.
It's the devil, you know.
You could teach with this film, ... Because you know what? That neighborhood drug dealer? He's not going to come up to your kid cursing him out being mean to him. He's not going to come up to your kid with the gun out (saying) 'Take my drugs.' He's going to come up like, 'Hey how you doing?' He's going to kill you with kindness.
I
think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams
wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the
fear.
I
don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I
think that's how you get your hat handed to you. I'm good at what I do,
but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful
about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
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