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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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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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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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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 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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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 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.
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I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
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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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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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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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