You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
BERNIE MACWhy do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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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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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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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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 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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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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