Fear is not one of my attributes.
BERNIE MACI’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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 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.
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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’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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 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 don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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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 learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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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.
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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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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