You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MACI’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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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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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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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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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