Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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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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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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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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 get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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 don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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