Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
BERNIE MACMy comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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 ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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 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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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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 love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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’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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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