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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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I’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.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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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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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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