Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
BERNIE MACI came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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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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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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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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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 daughter was a beautiful child.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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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