I was a street performer for two years.
BERNIE MACMy comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
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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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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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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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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 want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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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 came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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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 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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