I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
BERNIE MACIf I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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 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.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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 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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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