I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
BERNIE MACI was a street performer for two years.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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.
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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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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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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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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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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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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.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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