Bernie Mac Quotes
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We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
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People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.
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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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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 know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.
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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
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I've been in training for stardom.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.
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I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.
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I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
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I have so much respect for what's funny.
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Bernie Mac is happy.
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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'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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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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Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.
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When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.