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.
BERNIE MACI want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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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