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 MACIt 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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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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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 love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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