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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

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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. "

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

Eddie Murphy

Want

Position

" I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty. "

Eddie Murphy

Write

Way

" 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

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

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Comedy

Back

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eddie Murphy

Artist

You

" '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

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

" From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic. "

Eddie Murphy

Beginning

Dialogue

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

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

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

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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!' "

" 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. "

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