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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. "
Eddie Murphy
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" I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time. "
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" Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?' "
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" There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.' "
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" Music has always been around with me. "
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" However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever. "
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" You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit. "
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" You know, 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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" 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.' "
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" I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row. "
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" Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor. "
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" If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being. "
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" I think 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. "
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" I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it. "
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" I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters. "
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" I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy. "
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" The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio. "
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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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" 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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" There's 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 didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it. "
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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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" 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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" If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie. "
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" The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice. "
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" I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks. "
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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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