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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
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
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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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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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I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.
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Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?
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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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The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
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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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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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Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using the force?
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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 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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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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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 just voted for Jesse Jackson !
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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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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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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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