I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.
MR. TLife 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.
More Mr. T Quotes
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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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WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.
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I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
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You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry.
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I pity the fool who just gives up.
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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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Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
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I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have.
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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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Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.’
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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 use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God.
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