I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‘One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.
MR. TIf 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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If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.
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My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.
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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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Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!
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I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.
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To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
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I answer only to God.
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Rocky’ and ‘Rocky III’ were the best.
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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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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 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’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.
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You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.
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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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Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
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I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.
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I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’
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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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If I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.
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See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!
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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 would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.
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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.
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My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.
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Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
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