Eddie Murphy Quotes - Page 3

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• I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Night, Tvs

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• 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 and have a show like nobody ever had before.

  Eddie Murphy

  Want, Able, Stuff

  "Eddie Murphy on his return to music and the stage" by Brian Hiatt, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2013.

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• After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

  Eddie Murphy

  Beautiful, Smart, Kids

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  Eddie Murphy

  Years, Political, Get Better

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• I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

  Eddie Murphy

  Different, Shows, Show Business

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• I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.

  Eddie Murphy

  Makeup, Interesting, Looks

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Stars, Writing, Way

  "One and Done: 30 Actors Who Only Directed One Movie" by Max Evry, www.mtv.com. October 01, 2013.

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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!

  Eddie Murphy

  Basketball, Character, Player

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• How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thinking, Make You Think, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, White Man, White

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• I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

  Eddie Murphy

  Girl, Spices, Figures

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• We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

  Eddie Murphy

  Giving, House, Want

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thinking, Doe, Concentration

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• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Work Out, Effort, Ingredients

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• I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.

  Eddie Murphy

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

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• My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

  Eddie Murphy

  Dad, Day Care, House

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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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Trying, Knows, Originals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Kids, Guy, Age

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• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  Eddie Murphy

  Moving, Waiting, Machines

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• This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

  Eddie Murphy

  Doors, Answers, Neighborhood

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

  Eddie Murphy

  Actors, Reason, All Time

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• Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

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  African American, Firsts, Actors

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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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  Real, Men, Sound

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• I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

  Eddie Murphy

  Phones, Cells, Pizza

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• I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

  Eddie Murphy

  Funny, Morning, Sunday

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

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