Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
BERNIE MACI don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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 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 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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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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 ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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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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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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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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