I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
BERNIE MACI 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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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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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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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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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 was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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