I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused. Terry Crews More Quotes by Terry Crews More Quotes From Terry Crews I would never do a role where I'm naked in bed with a chick having sex. Terry Crews naked bed sex I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity. Terry Crews giving watches people [Muppets] all have their own teams. And I had to get it over to [Miss] Piggy's team and approvals, but she was with it. Terry Crews team approval missing Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards? Terry Crews mtv awards missing SportsCenter? You watch it and I didn't miss one thing. Chris Berman, they give you the whole rundown. I'm like wow. And I go in there and I walk in the next day, I know everything. They'll be like, "Oh did you see that?" I'd be like "Yeah I did," but it didn't take five hours. Terry Crews next-day missing giving The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding. Terry Crews agents real stuff I would have been a lot more nervous if I would had known that Matthew McConaughey was [on 30th Annual Television Critics Association Awards] and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was there and all that, and I was like, "Wait a minute and Bryan Cranston's here..." I think I would have got more nervous. But I think thinking it was just like, "Oh yeah critics, we're good." It was great. Terry Crews awards waiting thinking [Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing. Terry Crews missing song firsts When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands. Terry Crews wrong-turn turns hands All of a sudden I got a call the night of the first time we were filming and they're like, "Terry, we made a mistake. We need you to be you. You're not a joke with these guys and you're not mousy, you're very aggressive. Now it just so happens that you're going through these things, but we need you to be more physical in your role." Terry Crews guy mistake night I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western. Terry Crews guy athlete art A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys. Terry Crews team guy football If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground. Terry Crews team football character If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done... I mean you have to work with the stereotype. The stereotype gets you paid, it gets you in the business. If they're looking for a white housewife, they're going to go for Joan Cusack. Terry Crews white mean looks I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life. Terry Crews running fun football The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do a lot of big talking parts in movies, or even... he kind of has one emotion. He never looks at his career as an obstacle, he only looks at the positives. He's done... he knows, he has an opportunity. I mean, you see in a script, "Tiny Lister" type, you know you've made your mark. I mean on Friday After Next, that's what everyone expected me to be the new Tiny because it was that sort of part to fill that role, but if you look at the movie, there was a lot more there. Terry Crews friday opportunity mean You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa. Terry Crews bigger havens world By myself, I'm a hard pill. 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