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Bernie Mac
American
Actor
Born:
Oct 5
,
1957
Died:
Aug 9
,
2008
Always
Comedy
Me
Myself
People
You
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
Bernie Mac
You
Way
Something
Only
Get
Expecting
Upset
I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
Bernie Mac
Love
You
Daughter
Feeling
Emotion
Know
Got
Granddaughter
Certain
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.
Bernie Mac
Life
Love
Have Fun
Humor
Politician
Everything
Dress
Comedian
Want
Rehearsal
Fun
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
Bernie Mac
Me
Sports
People
Nothing
Changed
Posse
Mad
Out
Kind
Cat
Never
Like
Because
Always
Been
Quiet
Person
Get
Hang
Regard
Storm
Used
Reserved
Play
Things
Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
Bernie Mac
Time
You
Woman
Strong
Black
Every
Every Time
Extreme
Independently
Sexes
See
He
Hostility
Cheat
Between
Over-The-Top
She
Him
Always
How
Just
Romance
Show
If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
Bernie Mac
Bend
Else
Laugh
Tell
Someone
Over
Makes
Than
Anything
Bigger
Anything Else
Story
Them
When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
Bernie Mac
God
You
Man
Judge
Footprint
Gonna
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
You
Better
Black
Think
Extra
Come
Always
Got
Audiences
Than
Little
Them
Hard
Satisfy
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
Bernie Mac
Humor
Sense
Changed
Foolishness
Had
Making
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
Job
Fall
Stars
Extraordinary
Guy
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary Guy
Star
When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
Bernie Mac
Work
Nature
Motorcycle
Gay
Else
Had
Nobody
Nobody Else
Were
Balls
Where
Want
Places
Clubs
Gangs
Street
Things
Started
My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'
Bernie Mac
God
Me
You
Soul
People
Rest
Everyone
Mac
Worry
Say
Bernard
Fine
About
Name
Know
She
Call
Surprise
Mama
Just
Gonna
Used
Her
I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
Bernie Mac
Funny
Clown
Comedian
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
Bernie Mac
You
Think
Mac
Say
Says
Just
Afraid
I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
Bernie Mac
Day
You
Quality
People
Remember
Say
Joan
Joan Crawford
Those
Cosby
About
Guys
Cagney
Red
Like
Know
Always
End
Did
Substance
Want
James
Them
Bill
Bill Cosby
Used
I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
Bernie Mac
Myself
Back
Arm
Until
Pat
Any
Breaks
Need
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
Bernie Mac
You
Comedy
Become
One Thing
About
Part
Because
Audience
Making
The One Thing
Loves
Them
Thing
I've been in training for stardom.
Bernie Mac
Training
Been
Stardom
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
You
Do The Right Thing
School
Wife
Right Thing
High
High School
Girlfriend
She
Said
Got
Graduated
The Right Thing
Grandfather
Pregnant
Now
Right
Thing
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.
Bernie Mac
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Nothing
Pay
Else
Nobody
Like
Dues
Go
Been
Owe
Anything
Anything Else
Act
Acting
Your
I have so much respect for what's funny.
Bernie Mac
Funny
Respect
Much
I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Bernie Mac
Job
Extraordinary
Guy
Ordinary
Ordinary Guy
Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
Bernie Mac
Success
Whatever
Top
Had
Like
Always
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
Bernie Mac
Success
Comedy
Matters
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Has-Been
Scared
Touch
Issues
Been
Subject
Politically
Afraid
Being
Being Afraid
My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
Bernie Mac
Comedy
Pain
See
Hurting
Someone
Stand
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
You
People
Training
Care
Clown
Laugh
Laughs
Geared
About
Had
Toward
Name
Know
Look
How
Making
dont Care
Being
Used
Dedicated
Cool
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