Fear is not one of my attributes.
BERNIE MACComedy has been so good to me.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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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’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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 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.
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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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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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