When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
BERNIE MACWhen you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
BERNIE MACWhy 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.
BERNIE MACI had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
BERNIE MACEvery 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.
BERNIE MACI’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
BERNIE MACIf I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
BERNIE MACOnly way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
BERNIE MACWhatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
BERNIE MACI 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.
BERNIE MACI love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
BERNIE MACIf 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.
BERNIE MACThey 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.
BERNIE MACThat’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
BERNIE MACThe one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
BERNIE MACYou know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
BERNIE MACComedy has been so good to me.
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