Terry Crews Quotes

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

It ain't easy being cheesy!

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.

I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

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.

By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands.

I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.

You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.

Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?

[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.

[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.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I promise you, I'm fake sometimes, but other times I'm like, dude sit down.

The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

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.

You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

School is cool. Thats why it rhymes

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

IT'S ME!

It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!