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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.

Bernie Mac

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 MAC

Enjoy Entertaining Practice Thinking
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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Like Moving Worry You
I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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Black Country Scuba Used
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
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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Health Nothing Truth Worry
If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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Blame Remember Self
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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Comedy Different Happen Thinking
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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Girlfriend Right School Things Wife
I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
BERNIE MAC

Laughing Names People Training
America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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Country Party Rap School Touch
Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Always Comedy Like Success
I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Clown Comedian Funny
I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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Been Cat No Superficial
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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Acting All Anything Long Pay
It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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Just Pleasure Someone Strong
I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
BERNIE MAC

Play Waiting Want

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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