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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.

Eddie Murphy

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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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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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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I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
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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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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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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Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.
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The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
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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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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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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 can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
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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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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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How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!
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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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