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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
Brooklyn
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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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'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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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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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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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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Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, You got some big-ass lips!
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I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.
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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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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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.
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I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
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How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.
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I just voted for Jesse Jackson !
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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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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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Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !
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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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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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