Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
BERNIE MACWhen 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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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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 want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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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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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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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 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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