Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
BERNIE MACI 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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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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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.’
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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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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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