When 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.
BERNIE MACIt’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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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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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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Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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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 always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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 don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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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 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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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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The two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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