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

Bernie Mac

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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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  I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.

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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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  I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.

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  I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.

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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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  I’ve never been no superficial cat.

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  I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.

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  You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.

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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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  Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.

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