I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.
MR. TMy mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
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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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If you look at my job, my union card, it says ‘actor.’ It don’t say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that’s one thing that keeps me humble.
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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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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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When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.
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I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.
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I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.
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Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
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My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
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My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
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I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
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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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They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.
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I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer.
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If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
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I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.
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I don’t like magic – but I have been known to make guys disappear.
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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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When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.
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I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
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This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.
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I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.
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When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.
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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.
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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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I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have.
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