I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
BERNIE MACI always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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