Bernie Mac quotes - page 2

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say. (Bernie Mac)
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me. View quote
Bernie Mac
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun. View quote
Bernie Mac
I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different. View quote
Bernie Mac
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them. View quote
Bernie Mac
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
Comedy has been so good to me. (Bernie Mac)
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac
I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman. View quote
Bernie Mac
I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing. View quote
Bernie Mac
My daughter was a beautiful child. View quote
Bernie Mac
I was good at keeping my mother from crying. View quote
Bernie Mac
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. View quote
Bernie Mac
I was a street performer for two years. (Bernie Mac)
I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that. View quote
Bernie Mac
You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body. View quote
Bernie Mac
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. View quote
Bernie Mac
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. View quote
Bernie Mac