My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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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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I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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