Eddie Murphy Quotes
- All Quotes
-
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
-
I love the Beatles.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
-
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.
-
'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.'
-
Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
-
'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
-
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!
-
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.
-
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
-
I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.