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 MACStand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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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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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 can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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 have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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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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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