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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.
Eddie Murphy
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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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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 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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How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!
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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 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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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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