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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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" I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. "

Eddie Murphy

Want

Position

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Eddie Murphy

Old Man

Concert

" '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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love the Beatles. "

" 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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Time

Movies

" Music has always been around with me. "

" 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 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Does

Think

" 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. "