I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
BERNIE MACI think a lot of TV insults the audience.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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My 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.’
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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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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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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.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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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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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I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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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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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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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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