92+ Bernie Mac Quotes (Funny, Charismatic And Iconic)

Bernie Mac was an American actor, comedian, and voice actor. He was known for his roles in films such as Ocean's Eleven, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and Bad Santa. He also had his own television show, The Bernie Mac Show, which aired from 2001 to 2006.

Top 10 Bernie Mac Quotes

1. When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
2. Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
3. You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
4. When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
5. I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
6. Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.
7. If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
8. Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
9. I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
10. Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

Bernie Mac Short Quotes

• When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
• That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
• You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
• I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
• I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.
• It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
• I've never been no superficial cat.
• You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.
• I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
• You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

Bernie Mac Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Bernie Mac

I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun. — Bernie Mac

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

I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them. — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown. — Bernie Mac

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

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way. — Bernie Mac

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

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid. — Bernie Mac

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

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. — Bernie Mac

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? — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

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

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself. — Bernie Mac

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 he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour. — Bernie Mac

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

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. — Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat. — Bernie Mac

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

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense. — Bernie Mac

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. — Bernie Mac

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

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up. — Bernie Mac

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

I've been in training for stardom. — Bernie Mac

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

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

I love who I am. I love what I've become. — Bernie Mac

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

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. — Bernie Mac

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

My daughter was a beautiful child. — Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me. — Bernie Mac

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.' — Bernie Mac

I think a lot of TV insults the audience. — Bernie Mac

I can't build myself by beating somebody down. — Bernie Mac

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me. — Bernie Mac

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

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal. — Bernie Mac

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

I was a street performer for two years. — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

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

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

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

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown. — Bernie Mac

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

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

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

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something. — Bernie Mac

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

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

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question. — Bernie Mac

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

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

Fear is not one of my attributes. — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

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

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

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. — Bernie Mac

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

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. — Bernie Mac

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

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. — Bernie Mac

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

I have so much respect for what's funny. — Bernie Mac

I was good at keeping my mother from crying. — Bernie Mac

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. — Bernie Mac

Life Lessons by Bernie Mac

1. Bernie Mac taught us that hard work and dedication can take you far, no matter what your background is.
2. He also showed us that it is important to stay humble and never forget where you came from.
3. Lastly, Bernie Mac demonstrated that it is possible to be successful and still remain true to yourself.