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Bernie Mac

I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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Daughter Emotion Feelings
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Made Stand
Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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Causes People Problem
I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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Comedy Different Happen Thinking
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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Romance Sex Strong Woman
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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Directly Frustrated Manual Mistake Selfish
I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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Entertainer Fall Hate Known Stars
I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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Another Disrespect Feel Hate Ocean
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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Breakfast Food Night Nine
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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Brother Girlfriend Happen Mother School
Fear is not one of my attributes.
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Attributes Fear One
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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Big Challenges Motivational
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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Brother Cutting Hair Head Maintenance Myself
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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Able Discipline Gun Machine Onwer
It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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Dark Hard Heart Mom Rough Work
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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Girlfriend Right School Things Wife

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