Bernie Mac Quotes

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I was a street performer for two years.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

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.

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.'

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

I've never been no superficial cat.

I've been in training for stardom.

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

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

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 don't sugarcoat.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

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

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

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.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Comedy has been so good to me.

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.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.