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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.

Bernie Mac

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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Brother Cutting Hair Head Maintenance Myself
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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Comedian Dresses Everything Fun
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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Girlfriend Right School Things Wife
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Cities House Neighbourhood South Years
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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Audience Comedy Thing
Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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Able Laughing Red Same Time
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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Able Discipline Gun Machine Onwer
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Mind Onstage Pressure Want
I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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Good Men People Pride Something
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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Black Littles Satisfy Thinking
I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Extraordinary Guy Jobs Ordinary
I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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Comedy Introduces Myself People
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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Like Moving Worry You
I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Stardom Success Training
I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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Anything Firsts Help Push Sports Taught
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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Guy Like People Quality

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