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Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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Laughing Names People Training
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 want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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Good Men People Pride Something
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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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Made Stand
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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Anything Firsts Help Push Sports Taught
I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Clown Comedian Funny
I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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Entertainer Fall Hate Known Stars
I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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Arms Break Needs
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
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
If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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Bigger Laughing Stories
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Mind Onstage Pressure Want
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
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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Believe Children Inspirational
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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Daughter Jobs Later Married Mother

Comedy has been so good to me.

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