The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
BERNIE MACI don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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 think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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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