My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
BERNIE MACI’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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 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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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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