I’ve been in training for stardom.
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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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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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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’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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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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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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