It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
BERNIE MACI was a street performer for two years.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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 ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Why 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.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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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’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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