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Bernie Mac

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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Mature Relentless Running
I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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Audience Needs Want
Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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Macs Sugarcoat
I 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.
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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Clown Comedian Funny
My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Comedy Hurt Pain Someone
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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Comedy Introduces Myself People
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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Believe Children Inspirational
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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Audience Comedy Thing
Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
BERNIE MAC

Car Unreal Want Wind
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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Gang Growing Kind Men Up
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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Able Discipline Gun Machine Onwer
I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
BERNIE MAC

Good Men People Pride Something
I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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Enjoy Entertaining Practice Thinking
I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Office Running
I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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Failing Sometimes Winning
I 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.
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Anything Firsts Help Push Sports Taught
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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Brother Cutting Hair Head Maintenance Myself
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.
BERNIE MAC

Health Nothing Truth Worry
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.
BERNIE MAC

Alive Fighting People Upset
I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
BERNIE MAC

Comedian Knows Limitation Politician
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.
BERNIE MAC

Able Laughing Red Same Time
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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General Hate Mean Something Sports
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Son Success Way Winning
I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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Daughter Emotion Feelings
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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Gangs Motorcycycle Nature Things
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Actors might Pain Producer

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