I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
BERNIE MACMy humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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 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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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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