When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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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’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 want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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My grandmother always told me 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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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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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