Celebrity Quotes: Ice Cube Shuts Down Academy Awards Hype

Plus, words from Brandy and Viola Davis.

Ice Cube isn't mad Straight Outta Compton wasn't properly recognized by the Academy: - "I’m not pissed. I’m not surprised. It’s the Oscars, they do what they do. The people loved the movie, the people supported the movie, it was number one at the box office over $200 million worldwide. I can’t be mad, you know.”(Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

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Ice Cube isn't mad Straight Outta Compton wasn't properly recognized by the Academy: - "I’m not pissed. I’m not surprised. It’s the Oscars, they do what they do. The people loved the movie, the people supported the movie, it was number one at the box office over $200 million worldwide. I can’t be mad, you know.”(Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Brandy and Nick Cannon are done with marriage for good: - Brandy:"I don't want to go down that road. I know I don't want to... I'm good.”Nick Cannon:"I feel like marriage isn't for everyone. A friend of mine put it the funniest way. He said, 'If you heard that there was a 50/50 chance of living or dying when you jump out of a plane, you probably wouldn't go skydiving.'"(Photos from Left: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images)

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Brandy and Nick Cannon are done with marriage for good: - Brandy:"I don't want to go down that road. I know I don't want to... I'm good.”Nick Cannon:"I feel like marriage isn't for everyone. A friend of mine put it the funniest way. He said, 'If you heard that there was a 50/50 chance of living or dying when you jump out of a plane, you probably wouldn't go skydiving.'"(Photos from Left: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images)

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Khloé Kardashian said Lamar Odom was cheating on her from the very beginning of their relationship: - “Love is blind. Lamar was so great at making me feel like I was the only one, I never speculated cheating.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Ray J went all out to propose to his fiancé, Princess Love: - "It was all a surprise — she had no idea. We were going to Arizona; I got the private jet and called her best friends and parents to come out the day after Christmas, and they hid on the plane... I was just hoping she would say yes. I was not 100 percent confident.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BMI)

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Taraji P. Henson doesn’t want you to put Cookie in a box: - "It was very important to me that she not be sassy and neck-rollin' and eye-bulgin' and attitude all the time. Everything she does is coming from a place of fighting for her family. That's why she's not a caricature.”(Photo: Mike Windle/Getty Images for GQ Magazine)

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Here’s why Lil’ Mama got emotional in that Breakfast Club moment that turned into a meme: - “The reason I got emotional was because I was talking about my mother, and at the time, I hadn’t came out about how I felt about it. When I came to talk to y’all, that was the first time I ever sat down with a group of people and discussed it. So it was just like… everything.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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President Obama was determined to make his final State of the Union address short and sweet: - "Tonight marks the eighth year I've come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I'm going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa.”(Photo: Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images)

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Ryan Coogler says Michel B. Jordan’s gotten even more popular with the ladies since Creed: - "We went to see Mayweather fight Maidana. Sly hooked it up. We were trying to get something to eat. We couldn’t get two steps without somebody stopping Mike. It was mostly women, and they weren’t even asking, they were just handing him the phone.”(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Here’s what Viola Davis thinks of Hollywood’s warped standards of beauty: - "We've been fed a whole slew of lies about women. By TV standards, if you are anywhere above a size 2, you're not having sex. You don't have sexual thoughts. You may not even have a vagina. And if you're of a certain age, you're off the table.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Here’s what Viola Davis thinks of Hollywood’s warped standards of beauty: - "We've been fed a whole slew of lies about women. By TV standards, if you are anywhere above a size 2, you're not having sex. You don't have sexual thoughts. You may not even have a vagina. And if you're of a certain age, you're off the table.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Sheree Whitfield says being away from Real Housewives of Atlanta had its perks: - “Being away I was able to work on myself and my kids and felt like now was a good time to return."(Photo: Andy Kropa/Getty Images)