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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.
Eddie Murphy
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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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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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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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I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
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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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Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using the force?
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How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!
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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.
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