When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
MR. TI’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.
More Mr. T Quotes
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If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.
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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
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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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To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.
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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.
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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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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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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.
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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 could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.
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To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
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Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
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Rocky’ and ‘Rocky III’ were the best.
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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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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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