I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
BERNIE MACI want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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I’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.
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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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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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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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