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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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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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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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I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.
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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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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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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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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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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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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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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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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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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 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'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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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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I just voted for Jesse Jackson !
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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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The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
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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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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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