My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
BERNIE MACMy 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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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I 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.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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