A biography for LL Cool Jhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.”
“I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.”
“That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.”
“You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.”
“What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.”
“I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?”
“I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.”
“I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.”
“There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.”
“I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.”
“I think the key to working out is for people to think of water - just allow the workouts to fill out the cracks in your lives and seep into wherever you can fit it in.”
“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.”
“You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.”
“People will feel the way they feel.”
“I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.”
“Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.”
“I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.”
“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.”
“You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.”