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I just voted for Jesse Jackson !

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
Comedian
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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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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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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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.
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The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.
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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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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 can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
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I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.
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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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My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.
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All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
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You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.
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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.
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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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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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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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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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Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using the force?
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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.
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