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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.

Bernie Mac

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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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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Audience Needs Want
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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Directly Frustrated Manual Mistake Selfish
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Actors might Pain Producer
I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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Comedian Knows Limitation Politician
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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Cameras Comes Light Men Microphone
You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Buffoons Going Playing
Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Hug Pie Pieces Plenty
When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
BERNIE MAC

Footprint God Judging Men
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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Center Community Director Kids
The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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Quiet Sides Two Weapons
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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Gangs Motorcycycle Nature Things
My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
BERNIE MAC

Comedy Hurt Pain Someone
I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
BERNIE MAC

Mature Relentless Running
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.
BERNIE MAC

Able Laughing Red Same Time
I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
BERNIE MAC

Comedy Different Happen Thinking

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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