When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
BERNIE MACWhen I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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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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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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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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 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’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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