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

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Bernie Mac
Age: 50 †
Born: 1957
Born: October 5
Died: 2008
Died: August 9
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Street Artist
Television Actor
Television Producer
Chicago
Illinois
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Politician

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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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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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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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I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.
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I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
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The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
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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.
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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.
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You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.'
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
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