I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
BERNIE MACYou 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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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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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 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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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 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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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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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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