Quote

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

Bernie Mac

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Family
Tell
Makes
Truth
Different
Think
Ashamed
Thinking
Comedy
Happened

More quotes by Bernie Mac

Image
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
Bernie Mac
Image
I have so much respect for what's funny.
Bernie Mac
Image
You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
I don't care about how I look I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
Bernie Mac
Image
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
Bernie Mac
Image
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
Bernie Mac
Image
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.'
Bernie Mac
Image
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
Bernie Mac
Image
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.
Bernie Mac
Image
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
Bernie Mac