Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Action Bronson

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.

I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.

I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.