Eddie Murphy Quotes
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?
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I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous.
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Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
