I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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 success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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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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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 get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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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My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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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 wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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