You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
BERNIE MACYou don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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 love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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 have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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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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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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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