I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
BERNIE MACOkay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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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 can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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