Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
BERNIE MACI’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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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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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.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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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 want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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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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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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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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