Top 343 Quotes & Sayings by Eminem - Page 5

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

So many lives I touch, so much anger.

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin' What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

I'm not afraid, to take a stand Everybody come take my hand

No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised, I'm as determined as them old timers.

All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'? And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

I will hit a man with glasses.

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold' Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.

I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15.