Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
BERNIE MACOnly way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
BERNIE MACYou’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
BERNIE MACBlack audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
BERNIE MACI’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.
BERNIE MACI 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.
BERNIE MACThey 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.
BERNIE MACI 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.
BERNIE MACI’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.
BERNIE MACI’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
BERNIE MACBernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
BERNIE MACMy humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
BERNIE MACThe two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
BERNIE MACI don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
BERNIE MACWhen I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
BERNIE MACWhen it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ’em.
BERNIE MACIf I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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