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.
BERNIE MACJerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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 ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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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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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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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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