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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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" 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?' "

Eddie Murphy

Anger

I Can

Funny

" 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. "

" I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies. "

" '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.' "

Eddie Murphy

Nobody

Say

" 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. "

" Music has always been around with me. "

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Time

Movies

" 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. "

" The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Artist

You

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Write

Way

" If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it. "

" You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit. "

" From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic. "

Eddie Murphy

Beginning

Dialogue

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor. "

" Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. "

" 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.' "

" Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor. "

Eddie Murphy

You

Actor

" 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. "

" I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Comedy

Back

" 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. "

" As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older. "

" I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. "