Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
BERNIE MACI 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 had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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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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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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