50 Cent

In Hollywood they say there’s no business like show business. In the hood they say there’s no business like ho’ business.

I’m the type to swallow my blood ‘fore I swallow my pride.

(On his feud with rapper Ja Rule) Right now he’s desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and (Dr. Dre) and everybody else. He’ll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the “I’m a mad gangsta” hardcore route, and ain’t nobody gonna believe him.

The only thing that I’m scared of is not livin’ up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

I don’t display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has but I’ve developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.

[on acting] I just enjoyed it as soon as I started doing it. It fulfilled something in me, and I’m so lucky that I found it.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to always be nice.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I don’t now what situation they came from and I don’t know what they were offered to go somewhere else. It’s the times now, There’s not a any loyalty for anyone or anything – a whole lot. Wherever the money’s at, that’s where they’re going, so I don’t blame them. They’ve got just a few years to get it done and if they don’t get it done then, then they aren’t going to get it done.

I don’t particularly tell my guys to cheat. I just tell them not to get caught.

[on quitting smoking] I quit smoking four months ago and since then I have been biting-chewing-fidgeting with anything that isn’t nailed down. I quit cold turkey. I was up to two packs a day, I’m coughing, my eyes are red, I don’t have energy, I’m not even enjoying it, so I just said, ‘That’s it.’ I think it might’ve been easier if I went with Nicorette or one of those supplements, but I just don’t get that. Let’s see, I’m addicted to something, so I know! Let’s pop some pills to get over it! Yeah, that makes sense. But now I find myself in conversations where people are looking at me and I’m salivating all over myself. This is how pathetic and sad it is: you start thinking, ‘Who am I without a cigarette in my hand?’

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don’t know anything.

I’ll take opinions from anyone from Jay-Z to a janitor, and I might value the janitor’s opinion more.

My little sister Stella partly looks up to me. She depends on me and I always try to set a good example for her.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

My first kiss was when I was 12.