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.
MR. TI’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself.
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Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.
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I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.
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My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.
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Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
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When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
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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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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 always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.
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I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.
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As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely.
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I didn’t watch ‘The A-Team’ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.
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I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.
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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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We 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.
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Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.
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