I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
BERNIE MACFear is not one of my attributes.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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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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