Top 130 Hood Quotes

I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.

When I first started snowboarding, it was something that was only really done in the winter. Mount Hood in Oregon was the magical exception.

I took it upon myself to give back to my ‘hood.

Before playing football, I didn’t fit in anywhere. My parents didn’t have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I’d come back to my hood and read.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

When you’re hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you’ve got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what’s going on; it’s a really unique experience.

‘All Def’ is unlike any other comedy show or set because ‘All Def’ goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a ‘stoop appeal.’ A stoop appeal is important for us because it’s where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

There is nothing like the rumble of a dual-piped American car with something under the hood.

HATE, even if it’s making money. is an underground movie, that’s how it was made. It’s a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it’s about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it’s the Queen’s country. She’ll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there’s no hood: it’s tea and red phoneboxes.

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje – these are all old friends from my early 20s.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

Whatever woman I love… I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she’s gotta have respect for my mother.

We need a governor strong enough to take us to our full potential. Jim Hood won’t, but I will.

In my hood, I was always with the older guys.

I don’t want to be in somebody else’s movie, and then they make all the money. I’ve gotten offers to do the movies, but I won’t sell myself short and be in somebody else’s movie, like ‘Boyz N the Hood.’ I don’t think I woulda done that.

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for ‘Robin Hood.’

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there.

Fort Hood, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino are not ‘terrorist incidents.’ They are attacks. Get that straight.

If I’m in the ‘hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

I stand out a little bit with my hair, so I make sure I wear a hood!

You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the ‘hood across the world.

I’m always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.

Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It’s crazy!

If I grew up in ‘da hood,’ it would make my story so much more interesting – if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren’t rich; they weren’t poor. I wasn’t trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

I think ‘Long Live the Kane’ was pretty much a real boxed-in mindset with me just doing what I represented in the hood.

I did ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Adulthood,’ and that’s what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do ‘hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying ‘Yo Blood’ and beating up others in the street.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as ‘the hood.’ She just doesn’t like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

In P7, I played Robin in a musical version of ‘Robin Hood’ and afterwards DO McLean was standing with mum and dad and he told them that I should go into drama. It is still extraordinary to me that a man in that period would think that that was an option for me.

For Halloween, I’ve gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

I do miss the Avalanche. That’s the my favorite car of all time, but that Dodge Ram Rebel has overtaken the Avalanche; I just love that truck. It’s got good vents in the hood; there’s no running boards underneath, so I can go Baja-ing if I want to, off-roading.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.

I’m looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America’s hottest hood artists.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.

I’m always polite in auditions, but I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, please give me the job,’ for ‘Robin Hood’ because I didn’t think I’d get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

I once did a film in which I was being chased by wolves. I had a scene where the Alpha of the pack leapt on the hood of my car and stared me down through the windshield. I will never forget staring into those eyes; this wasn’t a dog – not even a tough, bad-ass dog – no, this was a wolf.

My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you’re living in the hood, you don’t live this life where you’re crying every day, downtrodden every day.

In the early ’80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren’t any rap videos at the time.

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn’t do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.

It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.

When you see a Jamaica video, it’s always the hood. Everybody in the video’s got guns, and the world looks at it like that’s what Jamaica’s about. And it affects the economics of the music.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the ‘hood.

Matangi’s mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the ‘hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what’s going on in the ‘hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he’s speaking Spanish, and he’s speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.