My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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