When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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 can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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 daughter was a beautiful child.
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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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 hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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