Bernie Mac Quotes

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

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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

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.

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

Fear is not one of my attributes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.'