Terry Crews Quotes


When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that's how I survived until another team picked me up.


Citations

Crews, Terry. Manhood: How to Be a Better Man-or Just Live with One. Zinc Ink, 2014, p. 77.

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Terry Crews
Terry Crews
  • Born: July 30, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Comedian, Activist, Artist, Bodybuilder, American Football Player

Terrence Alan Crews is an American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder, and former professional football player. Crews played Julius Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. He hosted the U.S. version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and starred in the BET reality series The Family Crews. He appeared in films such as Friday After Next (2002), White Chicks (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Blended (2014), and the Expendables series. Since 2013, he has played NYPD Lieutenant Terry Jeffords in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He began hosting America's Got Talent in 2019, following his involvement in the same role for the program's spin-off series, America's Got Talent: The Champions.