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.
BERNIE MACMy humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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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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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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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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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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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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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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 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’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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