Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
BERNIE MACHugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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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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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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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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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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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 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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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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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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