I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
BERNIE MACI’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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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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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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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 don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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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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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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