Quotes by Eminem

"I was a smart kid, but I hated school."

"I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record."

"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."

"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."

"Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now."

"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."

"I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity."

"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."

"Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?"

"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."

"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"

"Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person."

"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway."

"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."

"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."

"Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found."

"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

"A lot of truth is said in jest."

"Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!"