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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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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
Foolishness
Humor
Changed
Making
Sense

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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
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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.
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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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I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.
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Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
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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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The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
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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'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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.
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