Quotes from Mr. T

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don't just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

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.

When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that's who I am.

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.

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. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

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.

If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

I always was a Christian... whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I'm pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I'm not dirty.

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.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

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. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

I don't have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

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!

Why am I here? I'm not lucky. That's God.