When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‘Mister,’ a sign of respect.
MR. TWe had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
More Mr. T Quotes
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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
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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 always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.
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If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.
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God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God.
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Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
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I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
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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 believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.
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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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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that’s me.
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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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I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
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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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