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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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 dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller. ”

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. ”

I have so much respect for what's funny. ”

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense. ”

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

Comedy has been so good to me. ”

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