I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
MR. TMy celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.
More Mr. T Quotes
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Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
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Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
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If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
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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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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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I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet.
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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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You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
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I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.
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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.
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If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story.
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.
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