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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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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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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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The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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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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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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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 started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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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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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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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using the force?
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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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I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.
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Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, You got some big-ass lips!
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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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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
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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.
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