The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
BERNIE MACI’ve been in training for stardom.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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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 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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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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 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 comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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 know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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