I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

People know when you're frontin'.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

I'm a peaceful dude.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

Impatience never commanded success.

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.