I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.
MR. TYou 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.
More Mr. T Quotes
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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 know about two things: ‘Rocky III’ and Clubber Lang, and ‘A-Team’ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!
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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’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.
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I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.
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Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
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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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I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
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Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
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I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
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Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.
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Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
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Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
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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 knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.
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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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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.
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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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You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
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I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’
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You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.
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They used to call me ‘Touchdown T.’ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‘I’m going to run for three touchdowns.’ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.
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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’m tender on the inside.
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