I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
BERNIE MACI learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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