Eddie Murphy Quotes
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The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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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.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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I love the Beatles.
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.