Top 77 Gotta Quotes

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that’s what you were supposed to be – until I realized that it didn’t serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I’ve gotta be me.

To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

My philosophy is if you’re a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

We’re in the business of making fans that will last with us a lifetime. In order to do that, you’ve gotta give them something special.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving – you just gotta be you.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won’t hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I’ve gotta look at it.

You’ve gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you’ve ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

You gotta stay on point in everything in life.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

When you retire, you don’t get fat and old. C’mon: it’s like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that’s when they die. You gotta keep moving.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

You can’t get tired in the studio. It’s really tough. But you just gotta keep on going.

At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don’t want politicians who’ve gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.

The NFL stands for ‘Not For Long,’ so you gotta get it while it lasts.

Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer – you gotta go to the same guy.

But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people ‘the cops.’ But you know, sometimes, you’ve just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we’re playing a game. It’s a business, it’s our job, but I don’t think you can do well unless you’re having fun.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.

I don’t think it’s cool for people to say, ‘You shouldn’t reference God because I don’t believe that, and I don’t want to hear it.’ Well, there’s a lot of stuff I don’t believe that I still gotta hear.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

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.

I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody’s gotta do it.

For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there’s no way around it.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

If you want something you’ve never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you’ve never done before.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.

You don’t need validation from other people. You’ve gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.

You’ve gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You’ve gotta give ’em that music to make ’em feel like they’re OK, and it’s only a couple of artists that do that.

No matter how much it hurts, you gotta stay focused on what you’re there for and your goals, just don’t give up.

You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

You always gonna feel me. That’s my main thing. When I’m speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question the motive. No one knows you the way you do.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

You need to feel comfortable. When you’re comfortable, you feel confident. And when you’re confident, the world is your oyster. Most important, you gotta feel what you wear.

I ain’t follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It’s just grindin’, ya feel me? You just gotta grind.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

The one thing you’ve gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what the given situation, no matter what comes up against you. You do the best you can do, and you never give up. Never quit.

There’s a lot of stuff you’ve gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it’s the hot thing to do.

At the end of the day that’s the only thing you can’t pay for, the thing you can’t get back. So you gotta learn to sacrifice that time to put something you trying to invest in.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that’s closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that’s closest to you.

There’s humor in everything. There’s gotta be humor in everything.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

I don’t want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I’m ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I’ve been handed.

You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down – and mine have – but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

The day-to-day microaggressions that we all face, yeah, you have to let some stuff slide, or you go, ‘I gotta keep moving; there’s bigger fish to fry.’ It’s something that I still deal with. But I’ve tried to have the audacity of equality and to follow my heart in those moments where I feel like something is wrong.