I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.
MR. TMy mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
More Mr. T Quotes
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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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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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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
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My mother told me, ‘Son, nobody else but God knows.’ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope.
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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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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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I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants.
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My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.
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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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Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
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I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.
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I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
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You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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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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