I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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.
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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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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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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I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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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I was a street performer for two years.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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