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.’
BERNIE MACIt was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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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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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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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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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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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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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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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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I’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.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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