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.
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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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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 love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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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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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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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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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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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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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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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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