Eddie Murphy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I will blow your face clean off your face!”
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“If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : "Exclusive: Eddie Murphy on His Return to Music and the Stage". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. September 9, 2013.
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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.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.”
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“Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.”
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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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“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. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the ***** room. I don't give a ***** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.”
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“The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Mar 10, 2014
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“I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 12, 2014
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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 keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.”
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“Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.”
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“I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.”
-- Eddie MurphySource : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Mar 05, 2014
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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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.”
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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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“If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.”
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“I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.”
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“Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?”
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“I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!”
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“Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"”
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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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“From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.”
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“White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ***** whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ***** whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.”
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“I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.”
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“My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!”
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“The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people”
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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.”
-- Eddie Murphy
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