Quotes by Vanilla Ice

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

— Vanilla Ice

Success

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

— Vanilla Ice

Friendship

The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

— Vanilla Ice

Success

I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

— Vanilla Ice

Happiness

Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

— Vanilla Ice

Hope

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

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Wisdom

A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

— Vanilla Ice

Success

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

— Vanilla Ice

Happiness

To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

— Vanilla Ice

Love

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

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Wisdom

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

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Wisdom

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

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Wisdom

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

— Vanilla Ice

Life

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

— Vanilla Ice

Success

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

— Vanilla Ice

Happiness

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

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Love

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

— Vanilla Ice

Life

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

— Vanilla Ice

Wisdom