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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

Bernie Mac

I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
BERNIE MAC

Gangs Motorcycycle Nature Things
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
BERNIE MAC

General Hate Mean Something Sports
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.
BERNIE MAC

Brother Girlfriend Happen Mother School
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.
BERNIE MAC

Good Men People Pride Something
I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
BERNIE MAC

Guy Like People Quality
I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
BERNIE MAC

Failing Sometimes Winning
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
BERNIE MAC

Son Success Way Winning
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MAC

Always Finish Grandmother
Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
BERNIE MAC

Car Unreal Want Wind
Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
BERNIE MAC

Barbers Hear Shop Stay
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
BERNIE MAC

Insult Television Thinking
I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
BERNIE MAC

Cat Hang Play Sports
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
BERNIE MAC

Changed Foolishness Make Sense
When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
BERNIE MAC

Footprint God Judging Men
I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
BERNIE MAC

Daughter Emotion Feelings
You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
BERNIE MAC

Like Moving Worry You

It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

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