Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
BERNIE MACI love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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 think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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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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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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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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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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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 became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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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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