Bernie Mac Quotes
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. 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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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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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.
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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'm a big fan of TV.
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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 have so much respect for what's funny.
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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 so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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I've been in training for stardom.
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When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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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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I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.
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I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
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I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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 think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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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.