Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
BERNIE MACThe two sides of Bernie – that’s a quiet weapon that I have.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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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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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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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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When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
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It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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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 have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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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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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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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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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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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 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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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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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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