I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
BERNIE MACSometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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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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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’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 don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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