Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Bernie Mac - Page 2

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

Bernie Mac is talented!

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I've never been no superficial cat.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

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.

Bernie Mac is relentless. That's one thing I like about him. He's not PC. He doesn't care what you think. He's going out there to please that audience.

The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

I was a street performer for two years.

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.