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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All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.
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Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.
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I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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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.
