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Eddie Murphy Inspirational Quotes (49)

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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.
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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've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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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.
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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 will blow your face clean off your face!
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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.
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Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.
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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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You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!
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You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.
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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.
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Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using the force?
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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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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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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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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.
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The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
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Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?
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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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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.
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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.
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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, You got some big-ass lips!
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