I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
BERNIE MACMy family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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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I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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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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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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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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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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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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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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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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