I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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