I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto. Mr. T More Quotes by Mr. T More Quotes From Mr. T 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 hollywood wish people Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed! Mr. T four gold pounds 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 predator tough guy 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 ice-cream work-out mind I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian. Mr. T christian children firsts If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady! Mr. T keys reading men I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do. Mr. T fruit littles love Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud! Mr. T cancer survival proud 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 rapper fighting order 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 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 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 giving people 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 self-esteem jobs country I feel good with who I am and what I made of myself. Mr. T feel-good who-i-am made My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way. Mr. T mother kindness long 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 mother beautiful football 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 careers heart trying 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 innocent-person jobs people 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 guy play football 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 nice mother house
