When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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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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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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 an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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