The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
BERNIE MACI don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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 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 Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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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’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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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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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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Comedy has been so good to 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 came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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