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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

Bernie Mac

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  You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.

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  I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

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  I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

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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’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

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  When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

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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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  I have so much respect for what’s funny.

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  You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.

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  I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

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  My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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  I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’

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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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  I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.

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  I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

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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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