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.
BERNIE MACWhen you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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 have so much respect for what’s funny.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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 always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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.
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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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