133 Eminem Quotes
Look in his eyes its all lies
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks
A lot of truth is said in jest
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
I need drama in my life to keep making music
Sucess is my only motherfucking option, failure's not
Thing is, I'm not really a commercial rapper
Nobody really understands the pressures put on me
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
My only scheme was to be a rapper

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I suppose it's old, partner, but the beat goes on
I do promote violence and I don't give a fuck
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
I don't want them once they turn 18
Holy Gigantical Completely Natural Bulges!
This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, love
You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive
I am whatever you say I am, if I wasn't, then why would you say I am
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
I don't hate women, they just sometimes make me mad
I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism
These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
I hate bitches. One fucked up, and it made me look at girls as sluts
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him
There were times when friends had to buy me fuckin' shoes!
Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?
Well, reading is the worst thing in the world for me to do. I hate it
Who's Tony Blair, did he get his dick sucked? Oh he ain't shit then
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker
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
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood
Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say to "hell with it" and move on
I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody
Battling with somebody, you do anything you can to strip their manhood away
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found
Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me
My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5. She was 15
As soon as my mom would leave to go play bingo, I would blast the stereo
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream
I got caught up in the drinking and the drugs, the fighting and just wilding out
I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place
I was born in Kansas City, and my dad left when I was five or six months old
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit
Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end
You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away?
I act like shit don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive
Oh you want me to watch my mouth? How, take my fucking eyeballs out and turn em around?
Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records, well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something
But I'm not ignorant - I know how it must be when a black person goes to get a regular job in society
I felt like it's my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or death situation
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed
Aside from watching my girl grow, my ultimate dream is to be good at what I am, be respected and grow up
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned
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"
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway
There are people coming to my house, knocking on the door. Either they want autographs or they wanna fight
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"
To all the people who never gave love, and continue to deny me 'cuz of what I look like: suck my dick you fucks!
Music, in general, is supposed to be universal, people can listen to whatever they want and get something out of it
Even though the battle was won, I feel like we lost it. I spent so much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening
My dream was like, let me get a record deal, let me go gold and I'll be happy. Let me make a living off what I do
The movie is about Jimmy coming out of his shell and finding his own way, not being a follower, being a leader
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it
If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?
The positive aspect of the movie is that no matter where you come from, you can break out of it if your mentality and drive is right
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!
When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to, but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is ten times sicker than I am
She really helps me when I'm about to do something too stupid. All I have to do is think about Hailie. She keeps me in check, definitely
Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher
Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence
A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!
There was this mixed school I went to in fifth grade, one with lots of Asian and black kids and everybody was into break dancing
I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically
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
It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could never say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!
I was takin a shit. I swear to God. And the fuckin name just popped into my head. Then I started thinkin of twenty million things that rhymed with it
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who took up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter
Look. I was pissed off! That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real
That's when I decided I wanted to rap. I'd hang out on the corner where kids would be rhyming, and when I tried to get in there, I'd get dissed
I know my mother tried to do the best she could, but I was bounced around so much - it seemed like we moved every two or three months
I want to be there for my daughter, whenever she needs me. I want to be with her on every step of the way, ya know. She's the best thing that happened to me
I'm proud of myself for pulling through all that and my criminal cases, my divorce. If I was still on drugs and living the life I lived three years ago, I'd be a failure
I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers - Tylenol. I took 13, 16 of 'em and fuckin' threw 'em up. I thought I was going die, I thought I was going to die for real
Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night
One thing I won't do is put out another song like "My Name Is", I can't stand that fucking song. This album is rawer. Fans looking for bubblegum rap aren't going to get it here
That's what I've found just on a street level - fans, and people on the street. They either can't stand me or love me for telling the truth and saying what's on my mind
But in 2000, people were offering me roles and I thought it was something I might want to dabble in. But I was doing the music so much, I thought I'd do films later
Then when I was five we moved to a real bad part of Detroit. I was getting beat up a lot, so we moved back to K.C., then back to Detroit again when I was 11
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
I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit, whether white, black, it doesn't matter. Everybody has been through some shit, whether it's drastic or not so drastic. Everybody gets to the point of "I don't give a fuck" 
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
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
Fuck all the shit and fame. Hailie is far too important. She keeps me from being too extreme. I realise that no matter how crazy I act on stage or how wild I may get, there has got to be a limit. Her father has to remain alive and be with her every step of the way
They say music can alter moves and talk to you. Well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? Well if it can and the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge it was my fault, and I'll get sued!
Most of the time it was relatively cool, but I would get beat up sometimes when I'd walk around the neighborhood and kids didn't know me. One day I got jumped by, like, six dudes for no reason. I also got shot at, and ended up running out of my shoes, crying
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion
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
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 fuckin around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess
I don't think I take the beef as seriously as they do, because I don't consider them artists. They look at me as an artist. I think they get more uptight about it. I can look at them and laugh. They can't do anything to me. What can they do to me? They have no credibility, no respect, no talent, they have nothing. All they can do is diss me vocally, they can't diss me lyrically. There's nothing they can do to me as far as the music goes. I don't take it as seriously as they do and I think that frustrates them. I think it's funny
I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded. If I didn't, then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked shit about me
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
There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act, and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an act, they even say they're cornballs, they admit it
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
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
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
If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that life style, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business
When I was 9 years old, my uncle put me on to the Breakin' soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, "Reckless". From L.L. to the Fat Boys, and all that shit, I was fascinated. When L.L. first came out with "I'm Bad", I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L.L
At this point, I'm like "Come up with something new". I hate the same old questions. But it seems like "white" magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my "whiteness" more than Black magazines
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 had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me
I mean I got jumped, fucked up shit happened to me a few times, but that happens to everybody. I don't think it has anything to do with color or any of that shit. It's just all a part of growing up
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
It was an honor to hear the words out of Dre's mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of N.W.A, from putting on the sunglasses and looking in the mirror and lip sinking, to wanting to be Dr. Dre, to be Ice Cube. This is the biggest hip-hop producer ever
Yeah, near 8 Mile Road in Detroit, which separates the suburbs from the city. Almost all the blacks are on one side, and almost all the whites are on the other, but all the families nearby are low-income. We lived on the black side
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
My whole market, my whole steez, is through the underground, if those hip-hop heads love it, I'll rise above. It's like, you hardly ever hear a Wu-Tang song on the radio, but they rose from the underground on word of mouth

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I would never fucking put them in a rhyme. I don't even want them wondering if I was trying to diss them. I got a lot of love for them. I grew up on that shit. The other rappers, whatever
My mother couldn't afford to raise me, but then she had my little brother, so when we moved back to Michigan, we were just staying wherever we could, with my grandmother or whatever family would put us up
I'd be surprised if this was the end of Eminem as a recording artist, but if you call your most recent two records The Eminem Show and Encore, you've got to expect it marks the end of some kind of chapter for him