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Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.
Bernie Mac
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Bernie Mac
Age: 50 †
Born: 1957
Born: October 5
Died: 2008
Died: August 9
Film Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
Street Artist
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Television Producer
Chicago
Illinois
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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.
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I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
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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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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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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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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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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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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 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.
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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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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 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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I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.
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