I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
BERNIE MACFear is not one of my attributes.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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 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’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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