Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
BERNIE MACI’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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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 want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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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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You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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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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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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America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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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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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don’t be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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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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