I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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 always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.
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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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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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 want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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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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I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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