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My daughter was a beautiful child.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

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

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Bernie Mac is happy.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

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

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

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

I ain't scared of you motherfuckers!

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

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?

Comedy has been so good to me.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

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.'

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I've been in training for stardom.

You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

I've never been no superficial cat.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

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

It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.

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

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.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

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

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

Bernie Mac is talented!

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

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

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

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.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I'm a big fan of TV.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

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

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

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

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

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

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.

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

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

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.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

I was a street performer for two years.

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

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.