Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I 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. "
Mr. T
Used
Disco
Doing
Related Quotes:
" When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher. "
Mr. T
Africa
Chains
Gold
" If you get knocked down - setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don't hire you - keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it. "
Mr. T
Trying
Doing
You
" I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever. "
Mr. T
Celebrity
Star
Never
" This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me. "
Mr. T
Mean
Him
Life
" 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. T
Work
Chicken
Smoke
" Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water. "
Mr. T
Walk
Water
He
" If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool. "
Mr. T
Fool
Cool
People
" My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually. "
Mr. T
Spiritually
Poor
Mother
" I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!' "
Mr. T
Me
Call
Look
" 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... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that. "
Mr. T
God
Father
Being
" I pity the fool who just gives up. "
Mr. T
Fool
Pity
Who
" 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. "
Mr. T
Being Happy
Stand
Loving
" 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. "
Mr. T
Hope
Hospital
Hair
" I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me. "
Mr. T
See
Compliment
Me
" I want to represent... to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try. "
Mr. T
Best
Strength
Do Your Best
" I want people to draw strength from me. "
Mr. T
Want
Me
Draw
" I'm tender on the inside. "
Mr. T
Inside
Tender
" Everybody loved 'The A-Team' because it was entertainment, pure and simple. "
Mr. T
Simple
Entertainment
Pure
" All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake. "
Mr. T
My Life
Life
House
" In high school, I majored in brick masonry. 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. "
Mr. T
High School
Buildings
Know
" I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening. "
Mr. T
Me
People
Hollywood
" See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp! "
Mr. T
Maybe
Behind
See
" Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! "
Mr. T
Enough
Gift
Me
" I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough. "
Mr. T
Pretend
Tough
Find
" Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me. "
Mr. T
Cold
Like
Way
" When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold. "
Mr. T
Heart
Gold
Looking
" I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother. "
Mr. T
Disrespect
Mother
Respect
" Whatever role I play is a positive role; it's a strong role. Never negative. "
Mr. T
Strong
Positive
Negative
" Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back. "
Mr. T
Take
Wish
Back
" I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff. "
Mr. T
Say
You
Because