Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
BERNIE MACI’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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