I’ve been in training for stardom.
BERNIE MACAs 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’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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 funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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 want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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