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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.

Bernie Mac

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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Brother Girlfriend Happen Mother School
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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Lesson Suffering Teacher
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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Hours Minutes
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
It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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Just Pleasure Someone Strong
You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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Breakfast Food Night Nine
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Afraid Macs Say Thinking
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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Gang Growing Kind Men Up
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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Big Challenges Motivational
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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Insult Television Thinking
Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Hug Pie Pieces Plenty
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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Black Littles Satisfy Thinking
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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Girlfriend Right School Things Wife
I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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Failing Sometimes Winning
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.
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Center Community Director Kids
I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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Mature Relentless Running

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 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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