My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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.
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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’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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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 think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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