Bernie Mac Quotes

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

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• There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Confidence
  • Building
  • Just

• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hand

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Project
  • Originally

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I'm not particularly interested in working with movie stars. It depends on where you come from, I suppose. Why are you making films? The reason I want make films is because they convey ideas. I think some directors make films because they want to hang out with movie stars and be part of Hollywood. They want to be a star themselves.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Star

• I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Rest

• In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Facts

• We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Fall