I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
BERNIE MACI 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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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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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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 had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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