“I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.”

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’.

I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‘I’ve beaten it. You can, too.’

If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

I know about two things: ‘Rocky III’ and Clubber Lang, and ‘A-Team’ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I’ll never have a wedding. I don’t want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.

If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don’t like them very much.

That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.

Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like?

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.