The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
BERNIE MACI’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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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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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 love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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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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Making 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.
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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’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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 success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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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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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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 ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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