You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
BERNIE MACI’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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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 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.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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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’ve been in training for stardom.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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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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