It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
BERNIE MACThe one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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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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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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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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