Top 343 Quotes & Sayings by Eminem

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American rapper Eminem.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him widely controversial, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass and has been cited as an influence for many artists of various genres.

American - Rapper | Born: October 17, 1972

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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

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Guns are bad, I tell you.

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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

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I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

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

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

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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

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You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

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

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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?

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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

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

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A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

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Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

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

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I need to keep working on myself for a while.

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I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

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

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I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

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I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

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I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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I'm very much a creature of habit.

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You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

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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.

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It feels good to have your work respected again.

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

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

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

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I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

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I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

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People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

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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.

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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.