I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
BERNIE MACI’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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 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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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 had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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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 want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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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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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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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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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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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 can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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My grandmother always told me 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’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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