You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
BERNIE MACI learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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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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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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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 wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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 love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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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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