I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
BERNIE MACThat’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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