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Bernie Mac

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
BERNIE MAC

Center Community Director Kids
I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
BERNIE MAC

Become Create Love
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
BERNIE MAC

Country Lying Start Writing
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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Brother Detectives Police
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MAC

Always Finish Grandmother
I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
BERNIE MAC

Comedy Introduces Myself People
My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Comedy Hurt Pain Someone
My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Beautiful Children Daughter
Comedy has been so good to me.
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Comedy Good One
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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Insult Television Thinking
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
BERNIE MAC

Cities House Neighbourhood South Years
You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Buffoons Going Playing
I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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Cat Hang Play Sports
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
BERNIE MAC

Directly Frustrated Manual Mistake Selfish
I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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Acting All Anything Long Pay
I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Extraordinary Guy Jobs Ordinary

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