It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
BERNIE MACI’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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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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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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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 want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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