Eddie Murphy Quotes

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Eddie Murphy

Profession : Comedian

Birth : April 3, 1961

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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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

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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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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

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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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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 stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.

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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.

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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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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

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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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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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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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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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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

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My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

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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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