Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
BERNIE MACMy daughter was a beautiful child.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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 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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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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