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.’
BERNIE MACI’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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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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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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 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’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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