I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
BERNIE MACI hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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