Quotes by Eminem

Paintballs shot at they truck, blaow! Look at y'all runnin' your mouth again When you ain't seen.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

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

I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

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

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

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

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right -- you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down.

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.

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

The emotions in a song -- the anger, aggression -- have got to be legitimate.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

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

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

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

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

I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game.

Be smart, don't be a retard.

I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard.

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

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

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.

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

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

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

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

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.

I Like Gay Men, Right Ken?

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

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

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

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme.

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.

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

I believe people can change, but only for the worse.

Put your temper to more use
cause
Being broke is a poor excuse.

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

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

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

You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, 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.

Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies

In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up

When the temp goes up to the mid 80's.

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.

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

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.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters.

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

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.

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

If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss.

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

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

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

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.

I was born a premature birth.
My first words were bleep, bleep and Curse, Curse
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

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.

You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!

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

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

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

What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

I find you offensive for finding me offensive.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.

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

If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil.

Before you judge someone, walk a mile in his shoes.

Why be a king, when you can be a god?

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

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

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

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck.

Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.

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

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.

I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
With the ugly Kardashian...
Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

Be proud of who you are.

I have never felt so much pain in my life. It was tough for me to even get out of bed and I had days when I couldn't walk, let alone write a rhyme.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

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 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.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

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

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

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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

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.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

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.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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

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.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

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.

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

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.

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

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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.

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

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

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

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

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

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.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

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

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