I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
BERNIE MACAmerica…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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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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 been in training for stardom.
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I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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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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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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