If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
BERNIE MACYou have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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