Ice Cube Quotes

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

There's no problem with trying to be successful, but it's all about just doing good work. It's not about fame.

If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

All I'm interested in is putting in consistent performances. If awards come along with that, great. It means you are doing something right.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that.

I seek out good work.

To give your best is to receive the best.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

I just want to do really good work.