Bernie Mac Quotes
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I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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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.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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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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Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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've never been no superficial cat.
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You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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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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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.