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" My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson. "
Eddie Murphy
Me
Old Man
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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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" 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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" I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. "
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" Music has always been around with me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Day
Content
" 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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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
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" I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an 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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" 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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