Master P Quotes

Work hard and never make excuses.

Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman.

People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

I want to get rich and die old.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

I don't need to get my due; I get my money.

I feel like God blessed me to be successful and to have a couple of more things that a lot of people of where I come from didn't have or didn't see, but it ain't always about me. It's about empowering the next generation so that's what I love doing.

I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

Most of the people don't get their just due until they ain't here no more.

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

Now my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.

I want to be able to take care of my family.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

Atlanta is a big market for me. They've always supported my music. They took care of my people during Hurricane Katrina, so I love them and I love my fans. And to be able to help and motivate the next generation, I feel like this is the place to do it.