Eddie Murphy Quotes
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
