I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
BERNIE MACI became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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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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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