My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
BERNIE MACMaking people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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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 have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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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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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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 don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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