I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
BERNIE MACThey 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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 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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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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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 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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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 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’ve never been no superficial cat.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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