You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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You 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.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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