Nick Cannon Quotes (33 Quotes)


    I wasn't really trying to make a political statement. I wasn't trying to be pro-life or pro-choice. I was just trying to be pro-Nick.

    I actually created the concept and wrote the story and produced it, so it's kind of like my baby, going from my idea to a feature film.

    to start creating my own projects. People want to work with me but there aren't that many scripts being written for me.

    It was a testosterone dream. It was like playing cops and robbers. I was looking forward to doing something new every day.

    It's really cool to make this list. And this is a great party


    I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

    I admire the moguls of the game. The Russell Simmons, Quincy Jones and P. Diddys of the world. They have done things that affected our culture, and I want to do the same thing.

    Bow Wow is amazing in this film, ... I always like to say, 'If you can't picture someone else in the film, then that person did a phenomenal job,' and I can't really picture anybody else in the role of Xavier. He stripped himself totally of the Bow Wow character and became Xavier.

    Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

    We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

    You structure the games and then you just hope, you know, everything goes well and it plays funny.



    It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

    We would always talk about that and say All That was the new Saturday Night Live.

    You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

    If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

    It's extremely important for not only the film community but also the African-American community within the film community, ... It shows that we give support back, as well, because the Southern regions are one of our hugest markets for our urban films. And when you take it away from even the whole industry, it's just like those are people that need help. That's family down there. I have family members down there.

    The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else.

    Predictably, Cannon -- who's also an actor and host of MTV's new improv show, ''Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'N Out -- has become a darling of the antiabortion movement. Numerous websites and blogs such as lifesite. net praise the video for its ''powerfully pro-life statement, ... of his mother's dilemma. Another site, generationlife. net, says the video ''represents the emerging passion in this generation speaking out on the issue of abortion. This is the first wave of a post-Roe v. Wade generation telling their side of the story.

    To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

    I was attracted from day one. How could you not be attracted to someone who has a great spirit on the inside and beautiful on the outside

    When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.

    So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

    The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

    It's just that when I filmed 'Shall We Dance' in Chicago with Jennifer Lopez, she didn't see the need to do a love scene with me.

    I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

    Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks.


    I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

    She said she was in the clinic and heard a voice, ... I said, 'Yo, that was me.'

    This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

    In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.


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