Eddie Murphy Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Kids, Want, Emotion

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

  Eddie Murphy

  Comedian, Stand Up Comedian, Comfortable

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• Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

  Eddie Murphy

  Past, Years, Laughing

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Years, Careers, Relax

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Sep 23, 2013

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• It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

  Eddie Murphy

  Basketball, Mistake, Nba

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• My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

  Eddie Murphy

  Money, Wife, Making Love

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Attitude, Moving, Voice

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 01, 2014

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• When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

  Eddie Murphy

  Teenager, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

  Eddie Murphy

  Baby, Hey, Asks

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• Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

  Eddie Murphy

  New York, Emotional, Doe

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Gentleman, Fifty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Want, Analyzing, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

  Eddie Murphy

  Idols, House, Entertainers

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• White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.

  Eddie Murphy

  Boys, Play, White

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• Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

  Eddie Murphy

  Funny, People, Black

  "Eddie Murphy: Delirious". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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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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  Growing Up, Listening, Groups

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• There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.

  Eddie Murphy

  Negative, Attention, Done

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Wish, Technique

  Source: collider.com

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• That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thinking, Idols, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

  Eddie Murphy

  Guitar, Play, Want

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Nov 01, 2011

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Successful, Made, Exception

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• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  Eddie Murphy

  Artist, Acting

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• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

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  Flow, Dialogue, Seems

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• The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

  Eddie Murphy

  Competition, Tradition

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