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Mr. T
American
Actor
Born:
May 21
,
1952
God
Man
Me
Mother
People
You
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I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.
Mr. T
Wildest
Clause
Had
Santa
Ever
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
About
Moses
Like
Talk
Disciples
Because
Preacher
Trained
Being
Wanted
Apostles
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
Work
People
Other
Some
Disco
Doing
Celebrities
Used
Bodyguard
My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.
Mr. T
God
Faith
You
People
Try
Job
Naked
Believe
Other
Hungry
Tell
Feed
Like
Message
Because
Gotta
Tested
Just
Just Because
Happen
Mean
Gonna
Realize
Serve
Things
I'm tender on the inside.
Mr. T
Inside
Tender
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
School
Build
Way
Machine
High
High School
About
Had
Masonry
Stuff
Know
Around
Buildings
Shop
Graduated
Wood
Wanted
Brick
'Rocky' and 'Rocky III' were the best.
Mr. T
Best
Were
Rocky
I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get.
Mr. T
You
Care
Rembrandt
Duplicate
dont Care
Get
Artist
Movie
Who
Watch
I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, 'I've beaten it. You can, too.'
Mr. T
You
Cancer
Too
Tell
Guys
Beaten
Go
Them
I hold the door for the ladies - I'm a gent.
Mr. T
Ladies
Door
Hold
All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.
Mr. T
Life
Buy
Mother
My Life
Out
House
Achieved
Wanted
Ever
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.
Mr. T
Good
You
Live
See
Football
Football Players
Stuff
Longer
Proud
Brain
Actor
Players
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.
Mr. T
Life
Good
Me
Happy
Son
People
Mother
Care
Everything
Guided
Take
Take Care
Protecting
Because
Being
Wanted
Movies
Then
Bodyguard
Ever
Basically
I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
Mr. T
Myself
Seen
Whatever
Superstar
Never
Call
Celebrity
Star
If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.
Mr. T
Me
You
Humble
Job
Nothing
Say
Says
One Thing
About
Like
Look
Celebrity
Movie
Movie Star
Union
Star
Actor
Card
Keeps
Thing
I don't mean to be cocky, but if I'm never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.
Mr. T
TV
Never
Make
Another
Proud
Am
Dollar
Did
Wanted
Again
Mean
Cocky
I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.
Mr. T
Love
You
Say
Stuff
Performing
Like
Know
Because
Ham
Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.
Mr. T
Bible
Take
Tape
Listen
Shower
Downtime
I do watch some TV. I like the History Channel and National Geographic, and old shows on TV Land like 'Sanford and Son,' 'The Jeffersons,' and 'Benson.'
Mr. T
History
Son
Old
National
Channel
TV
Some
Like
Geographic
National Geographic
Land
Shows
Watch
To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.
Mr. T
Man
Black
Tough
Big
Kids
Some
Guy
More
Tender
Toughness
Box
Underneath
Always
Been
Train
Than
Just
Karate
The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.
Mr. T
News
TV
Most
Six
Show
Violent
I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.
Mr. T
Me
Man
People
Down
Hey
Compliment
See
Go
Pity
Street
Right
I want people to draw strength from me.
Mr. T
Strength
Me
People
Draw
Want
I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.
Mr. T
God
Me
Speak
Cancer
Come
Because
Been
Authority
Now
Believed
I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.
Mr. T
Broken
Kind
Shakespeare
Talk
English
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.
Mr. T
Home
Sometimes
Pretty
Clean
Dirty
Throw
Take
Over
Come
Off
Shoe
Coat
Here
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