Tupac Shakur (16 June 1971, East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) movies list and roles

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes". In Vibe interview 2/96

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something.

If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals ...Show more »

If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that Show less «

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way ...Show more »

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man. Show less «

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as ...Show more »

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave. Show less «

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them,...Show more »

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. Show less «

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is ...Show more »

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. Show less «

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this socie...Show more »

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Show less «

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

I'm a reflection of the community.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they coul...Show more »

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Show less «

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

With all my fans I got a family again.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

America wants its respect.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Polic...Show more »

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. Show less «

Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

Thug Life to me is dead.