"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."

"I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man."

"What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun."

"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."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."