I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
BERNIE MACI don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
BERNIE MACI took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
BERNIE MACI ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
BERNIE MACI love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
BERNIE MACYou have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MACYou know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
BERNIE MACStand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
BERNIE MACOkay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
BERNIE MACI became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
BERNIE MACBernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
BERNIE MACMy grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
BERNIE MACMy comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
BERNIE MACSometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
BERNIE MACI think a lot of TV insults the audience.
BERNIE MACMy girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
BERNIE MACI had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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