LL Cool J Quotes

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

When I say things, when I speak on television, I'm not making stuff up. I'm not, like, sitting in the back with a notepad thinking, 'Maybe this will make them think I'm crazy'. That's how I really am, you know? My views on this and that, which I really don't want to delve into, but my views are that of the real me. There is no character.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

I have found for me, and it should be the same for everybody, that it is easiest just to be how you are. Be the true you and there is no need to act differently. It has always been like that.

I'm pretty much an open book.

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

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I'm a pretty open book.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

Whether you like it or not, with me, what you see is what you get.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

I've always been this way. What you see is what you get.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.