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.
BERNIE MACMy grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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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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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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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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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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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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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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