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As 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.

Bernie Mac

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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Cat Hang Play Sports
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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Audience Comedy Thing
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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Health Nothing Truth Worry
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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Good Men People Pride Something
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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Guy Like People Quality
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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Big Challenges Motivational
It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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Dark Hard Heart Mom Rough Work
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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Comedy Issue Matter Politically
I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Extraordinary Guy Jobs Ordinary
I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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Become Create Love
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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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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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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Gangs Motorcycycle Nature Things
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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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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Afraid Anything Fail Failing Keys
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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As 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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As 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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