I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
BERNIE MACYou have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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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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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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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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