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.
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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I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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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’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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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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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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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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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