Ice Cube Quotes

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

I think there are two different types of people in television. There are people who can turn it on like a switch when the cameras go on, and then, when the cameras go off, they kind of lower it down a little bit. And then there are people who are on all the time, no matter if the cameras are there or not.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.