Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
MR. TI knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.
More Mr. T Quotes
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I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet.
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I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
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You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
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I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.
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I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
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They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.
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Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.
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I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
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I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength.
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When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.
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And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.
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We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
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If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
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I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‘I’ve beaten it. You can, too.’
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I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants.
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