Eddie Murphy Quotes
I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers (2 June 2015)
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
