Eddie Murphy Quotes
Top 50 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Eddie Murphy on Wise Famous Quotes.
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 can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.
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.
In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.
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.
You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.
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 started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!
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've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
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 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.
Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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.
If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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.
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
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.
The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.
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.
My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.