When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
BERNIE MACI’ve been in training for stardom.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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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 ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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 can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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I 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.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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