I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
BERNIE MACI came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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 know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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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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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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 had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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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 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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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