Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
BERNIE MACHugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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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 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 be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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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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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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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