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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More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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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.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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 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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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