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.
BERNIE MACWhatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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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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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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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 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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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