J.P. Mac Quotes

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

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 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 don't sugarcoat.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

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

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

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

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.

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 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.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

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

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.

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

I was a street performer for two years.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

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

I've been in training for stardom.

I've never been no superficial cat.

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

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.'

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

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

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

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.

Who discreetly whispers you forgot to zip up your pants? You babe, you're my bestest friend.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.