I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
BERNIE MACSuffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.
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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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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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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 know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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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.’
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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