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 MACI’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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 came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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