Bernie Mac

“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.”

“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.”

“People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.”

“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 dedicat...”

“My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.”

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

“I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the cit...”

“I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it...”

“You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getti...”

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

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

“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 h...”

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

“I think a lot of TV insults the audience.”

“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've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.”

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

“Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.”

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