I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
MR. TI used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.
More Mr. T Quotes
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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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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 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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Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.
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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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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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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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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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When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‘Mister,’ a sign of respect.
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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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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 don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?
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I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother.
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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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If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.
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Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
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I’m tender on the inside.
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I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?
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Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
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Everybody loved ‘The A-Team’ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.
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Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
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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’m a free spirit.
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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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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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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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