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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Eddie Murphy

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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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'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 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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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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I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.
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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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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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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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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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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 just voted for Jesse Jackson !
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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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This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.
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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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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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