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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Eddie Murphy

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
Comedian
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Stand-Up Comedian
Brooklyn
New York
Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
Acting
Artist
Music
Everything

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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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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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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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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'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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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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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 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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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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Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, You got some big-ass lips!
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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 just voted for Jesse Jackson !
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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.
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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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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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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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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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