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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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Center Community Director Kids
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
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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Audience Comedy Thing
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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Changed Foolishness Make Sense
I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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Perfect Robot Trying
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
I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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Mature Relentless Running
I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Black Coal Fingerprints
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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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Office Running
My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Comedy Hurt Pain Someone
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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Country Party Rap School Touch
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Cities House Neighbourhood South Years
You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Buffoons Going Playing
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
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

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