The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
BERNIE MACBernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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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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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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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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 don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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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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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’ve been in training for stardom.
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