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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.
- Bernie Mac
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#Anything
#Key
#Mac
#Whole
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
- Bernie Mac
#Me
#People
#Person
#Sports
#Storm
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.
- Bernie Mac
#Born
#Comedy
#Day
#Doing
#Night
I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
- Bernie Mac
#Myself
#Perfect
#Try
#Watching
#Yourself
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.
- Bernie Mac
#Day
#Dead
#Life
#School
#Wedding
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.'
- Bernie Mac
#Mistakes
#Parenting
#Say
#Selfish
#Speak
Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
- Bernie Mac
#Get
#Only
#Something
#Upset
#Way
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
- Bernie Mac
#Afraid
#Just
#Mac
#Say
#Think
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
#Extraordinary
#Fall
#Job
#Stars
#Want
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.
- Bernie Mac
#Care
#Cool
#Laugh
#Look
#Training
My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
- Bernie Mac
#Comedy
#Pain
#See
#Someone
#Stand
I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
- Bernie Mac
#Black
#Coal
#Fingerprints
#Leave
If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
- Bernie Mac
#Anything
#I Can
#Laugh
#Someone
#Story
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.
- Bernie Mac
#Comedy
#Looking
#Me
#Myself
#Time
I love who I am. I love what I've become.
- Bernie Mac
#Become
#I Am
#I Love
#Love
#Who
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
- Bernie Mac
#Born
#City
#Down
#House
#Neighborhood
I can't build myself by beating somebody down.
- Bernie Mac
#Beating
#Build
#Down
#Myself
#Somebody
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
- Bernie Mac
#Hair
#Myself
#Room
#Smell
#Week
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
- Bernie Mac
#Brother
#Family
#Police Officers
#Police
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
- Bernie Mac
#Boat
#Chance
#Earth
#Good People
#Good
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
- Bernie Mac
#Always
#Ghetto
#Story
#Success
#Want
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.
- Bernie Mac
#Dress
#Fun
#Humor
#Life
#Love
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