I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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.
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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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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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I 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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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