Eminem Quotes

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

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

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone. Holla if you feel that you've been down the same road.

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.

God sent me to piss the world off!

I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.

I believe people can change, but only for the worse

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

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

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom.

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.

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

I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want. It's the new tolerant me!

Rap was my drug.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

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

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

Yeah, it's been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one Now some of you might still be in that place If you're trying to get out, just follow me I'll get you there

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

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.

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.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

Just be yourself, the minute you start being yourself youre gonna win.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

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.

Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives,Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

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

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Inside I'll always be an outsider

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I will hit a man with glasses.

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friendsBut they really your enemies, with secret indentitiesAnd disguises, to hide they true colorsSo just when you think you close enough to be brothersThey wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'.

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.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.