My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
BERNIE MACI always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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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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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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 love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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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’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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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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