Bernie Mac Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Fear is not one of my attributes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I can't build myself by beating somebody down.”

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

“I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.”

“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.”