My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MACMy comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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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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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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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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 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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Comedy has been so good to me.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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