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" The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice. "
Eddie Murphy
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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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" 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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" 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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" I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. "
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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 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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Leave
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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 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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" 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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" 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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Rise Above
" 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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You
Dressed
House
" I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. "
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Comfortable
Started
Out
" 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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World
Places
I Can
" 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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Listen
Music
Time
" 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
" 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
" My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson. "
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Old Man
Concert
" 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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Healthy
Smart
Good
" 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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Like
Time
Movies
" 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
" 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
" 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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Emotion
Good
Mood
" 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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Quality
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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Funny
Done
Band
" 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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Name
Everything
" 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
" 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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" Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again. "
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Again
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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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Myself