I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
BERNIE MACWhy 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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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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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.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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