You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
BERNIE MACI’ve never been no superficial cat.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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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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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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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 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 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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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