I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
BERNIE MACYou know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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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’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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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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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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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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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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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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