He aspires to give Dr. Phil a run for his money, and on that subject observed: “My show ain’t no Dr. Phil where people sit around crying [at this point, Mr. T affected a whiny voice], ‘What’s wrong with me, Dr. Phil? What’s wrong with me, Dr. Phil?’ You are a fool. That’s what’s wrong with you.”

Similarly, when asked how he would counsel Tony Kornheiser, the Washington Post sportswriter who is afraid of flying but has taken a travel-intensive job in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth, Mr. T said: “Straighten up and stop being a coward. Don’t be no fool. Get on that plane and fly, fool, fly.”

Perhaps the best question of Mr. T’s appearance this week before the Television Critics Association, a question admirable both for its cheek and succinctness, was: “Mr. T, why do you pity the fool?”

“That is a good question. That is a good question and a legitimate question,” Mr. T replied. “And I’m the man to answer it. 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 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.”

“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time with the less fortunate,” he said.

Mr T also had some strong words to give to other celebrities after the disaster, “I saw some, I call it ‘sorry celebrities’. They’ll go down there and hook up with the people to take a photo-op.”

“I said, ‘How disgusting.’ If you’re not going to go down there with a cheque and a hammer and a nail to help the people, don’t go down there”.

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