I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
BERNIE MACYou can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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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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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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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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They say if you don’t have your health you ain’t got nothing, but the truth is you ain’t got nothing if you don’t have no one to worry about your health.
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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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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