You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
BERNIE MACMy grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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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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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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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