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" I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. "
Eddie Murphy
Artist
I Am
Doing
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" Ultimately, 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; that's what all this stuff is leading to. "
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" In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! "
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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'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, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Music
Time
" I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does. "
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" I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now. "
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" I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read. "
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Everything
" 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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Age
Story
Someone
" 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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Effort
Know
" 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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Guitar
Day
Content
" 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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House
Leave
Home
" 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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Relax
Been
Over
" 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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Too
You
" The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. "
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Ahead
Better
" 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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" 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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" If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow. "
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Great
Opportunity
" '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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" 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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Time
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" I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!' "
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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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Know
Enough
" 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. "
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Gentleman
Movies
Professional
" 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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You
" 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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Death
People
" I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music. "
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Done
Band