I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
BERNIE MACI want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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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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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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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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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’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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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 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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