My 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.’
BERNIE MACEvery 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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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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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.
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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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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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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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