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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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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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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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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 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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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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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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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'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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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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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'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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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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