It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
BERNIE MACWhy do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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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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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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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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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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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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 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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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I 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 daughter was a beautiful child.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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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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