I was a street performer for two years.
BERNIE MACI’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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They 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.
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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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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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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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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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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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