When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
BERNIE MACHugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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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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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 don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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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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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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