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.
BERNIE MACI 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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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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I was a street performer for two years.
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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 love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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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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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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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’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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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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