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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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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
Comedy
Audience
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Become
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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.
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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.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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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.
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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 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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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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When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I have so much respect for what's funny.
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Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
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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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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
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