It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
BERNIE MACMy grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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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 ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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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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