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" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Emotion

Good

Mood

" 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!' "

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

" 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 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Know

Enough

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Music has always been around with me. "

" I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist. "

Eddie Murphy

I Can

Right

" My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson. "

Eddie Murphy

Old Man

Concert

" 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! "

" I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. "

" I love the Beatles. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow. "

" I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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