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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Bernie Mac

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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Black Country Scuba Used
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
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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Brother Detectives Police
I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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Become Create Love
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
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
Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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Causes People Problem
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Always Finish Grandmother
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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Lesson Suffering Teacher
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Actors might Pain Producer
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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General Hate Mean Something Sports
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Cities House Neighbourhood South Years
You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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Cameras Comes Light Men Microphone
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
BERNIE MAC

Audience Comedy Thing
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
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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Changed Foolishness Make Sense

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