Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
BERNIE MACI 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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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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’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 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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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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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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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