Ice Cube: I don't do schmoozing

Ice Cube doesn't want to suck up to Hollywood bigwigs to land move roles.

The American star enjoys a successful career in music and acting and has been part of the entertainment industry since the late 80s.

While he originally found fame as a rapper, he's concentrated more on movie work in the last few years. However, when asked which he'd prefer an Oscar or a Grammy the 45-year-old shunned both.

"Neither. Because I ain't got one, and I still feel good about myself," he told Billboard magazine. "Some artists play the game how it's supposed to be played, and some artists don't care and do what they want to do. Hollywood punishes maverick thinking. The people who don't schmooze at the parties end up getting overlooked. That stuff is corny to me. I'm not showing up to these events just to take a picture."

Ice's 2014 film Ride Along proved to be so popular there is a sequel planned for next year. The buddy movie co-starred Kevin Hart, who will also be back for number two.

Talking about how he divides his time, Ice divulges it's taken him a while to realise you can't do everything at once.

"It was hard earlier in my career, so I decided not to balance [films and music]. When I'm working on a movie, I'm fully engulfed in it and not thinking about music, I'm not thinking about movies. I realised this after I made a few records that I didn't like and a few movies that I wasn't into. I was halfway in both worlds, constantly leaving the set to make music. You end up cheating both if you don't separate them," he explained.