Latest Mr. T Quotes from Interviews

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• My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Kindness, Long

  Source: chicagoist.com

• For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.

  Mr. T

  Jobs, Innocent Person, People

  Source: chicagoist.com

• I'm tender when I need to be. I'm tough when I should to be.

  Mr. T

  Needs, Tough, Should

  Source: chicagoist.com

• When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Football, Mother

  Source: chicagoist.com

• I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.

  Mr. T

  Heart, Careers, Trying

  Source: chicagoist.com

• I'm not outright seeking stuff. Because all I want to do is done. I bought my mother a nice house and pretty dress.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Nice, House

  Source: chicagoist.com

• As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm talking about White, Chinese, Oriental, whoever lost stuff. My heart went out to 'em. I said as a Christian it would be a sin before God for me to wear my gold around people, flashing it in their face and they don't have nothing. So I said never again would I wear my gold, I want people to know I have a heart of gold and not the gold around my neck.

  Mr. T

  Christian, Heart, Talking

  Source: allhiphop.com

• Everything I've done was above board, as an actor I wanted to do two things. I wanted to entertain as well as get a message across. I never did no pimp roles, no negative roles, or anything like that. I had fun, everything I've done I'm proud to take my mother to.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Fun, Two

  Source: allhiphop.com

• When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.

  Mr. T

  Looks, Done, Proud

  Source: allhiphop.com

• There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do.

  Mr. T

  Football, Jesus, Heart

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

  Mr. T

  Football, Play, Guy

  Source: allhiphop.com

• Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.

  Mr. T

  Winning, Men, Years

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I feel good with who I am and what I made of myself.

  Mr. T

  Who I Am, Feel Good, Made

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I'm not gonna buy something without planning. If I buy $100,000 worth of gold, I gotta put $100,000 aside for my family in case something happens. You look kind of stupid wearing all that gold and you didn't have no plan.

  Mr. T

  Stupid, Gold, Looks

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.

  Mr. T

  Nice, Years, Goal

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I have the mohawk,even though people still call it the mohawk I say "I don't wanna be disrespectful to the Mohican Indians but there is a tribe in Africa called the Mandinka warriors." They're in the west coast of Africa in the country of Mali.I was reading National Geographic Magazine back in 1977, and I saw the warrior standing there with his spear and his beads around his neck and whatnot and the stuff on his ankles. That was what gave me the idea, I said "Wow, let me bring respect to them," so basically what I wear is called a Mandinka cut.

  Mr. T

  Country, Reading, Warrior

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought bling. Bling is not in The Bible.

  Mr. T

  Christian, Wise, Jesus

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Price Tag, Black

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Rap, Clothes

  Source: allhiphop.com

• Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.

  Mr. T

  Pain, Wind, Long

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Talking, People

  Source: allhiphop.com

• Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Rapper, Order

  Source: allhiphop.com

• I talk to people and show 'em how to solve their problems and stop sitting around and complaining. So I just give people little T-isms, so that when they hear my story they know where I'm coming from and that I'm real.

  Mr. T

  Real, People, Giving

  Source: allhiphop.com

• God gave me an opportunity, this is my platform for me to reach people.I tell everybody like my mother told me, it's not what I make, it's what I share. That's why I'm still here because I share a lot.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Opportunity, People

  Source: allhiphop.com

• Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems. I appear whether at their house or at their job site or some neighborhood gathering. I come there and listen to their story and I get hands on as I say. I don t give advice, I give people hope, I build their self-esteem, I motivate 'em. I inspire them because that's what I do.

  Mr. T

  Country, Jobs, Self Esteem

  Source: allhiphop.com