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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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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
Comedian
Director
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Film Director
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Stand-Up Comedian
Brooklyn
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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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The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
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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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Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, You got some big-ass lips!
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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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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I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.
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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?
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