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" Music has always been around with me. "
Eddie Murphy
Always
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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History
" I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. "
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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'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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" 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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" 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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" As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older. "
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Older
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" I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. "
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Position
Me
" 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
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" The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity. "
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Diversity
Movies
Quality
" 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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Anger
I Can
Funny
" 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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Places
Things
America
" 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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People
Around
Clouds
" 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. "
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Work
Success
Movies
" 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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Movies
Place
Rise Above
" 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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Know
Death
People
" '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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Nobody
Say
" 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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Years
You
Filter
" 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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Know
Name
Everything
" 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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Grow
Great
Opportunity
" 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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Growing Up
Listening
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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'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor. "
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Who
Think
Myself
" 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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Me
Know
Enough
" 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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Story
Someone
" I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now. "
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" 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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