{"author":"Bernie Mac","author_id":"Bernie+Mac","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["whatever","always","like "],"id":3714,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.'.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["mistakes","speak","selfish "],"id":4645,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["storm","me","people "],"id":15138,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["love","life","dress "],"id":85270,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low. ","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["game","me","know "],"id":209370,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["life","father","mother "],"id":213321,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["breakfast","night","know "],"id":245732,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["want","story","you "],"id":291758,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["work","hate","people "],"id":312730,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Mac","tags":["good","golf","boat "],"id":333046,"author_id":"Bernie+Mac"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}