I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
BERNIE MACI have so much respect for what’s funny.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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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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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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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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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 was a street performer for two years.
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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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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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