Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
BERNIE MACI’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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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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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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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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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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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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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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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 always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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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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