I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
BERNIE MACI can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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They 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.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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 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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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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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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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