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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.

- Eddie Murphy

Singing, Always, Saturday, Shrek

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

Star, Like, Before, Exactly The Way

'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

Want, Going, Town, Nutty

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

Think, De Niro, Jim Carrey, Jim

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Doing, Part, Same Thing, African-American

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Natural, Been, Last, Ireland

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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Want, Mood, About, Good Mood

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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Next, Movie, Hit, Flop

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Newspaper, Computer, Read, Filter

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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Waiting, Big, Making, Time-Consuming

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Here, Been, Making Movies, Old Lady

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Tell, Sour, Again, Divorced

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

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Beginning, Always, Very, Flow

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, Movie, Studio, Table

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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Voice, Move, Attitudes, Observing

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?'

- Eddie Murphy

Been, I Think, About, I Wonder

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Dancing, Thought, However, None

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Doing, Some, Everybody, Different Things

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

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Die, Country, Plane, Great Talent

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Human Being, Going, However, Regular

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

- Eddie Murphy

Play, Here, Otherwise, Sit

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Rock And Roll, Became, Fed, Hip-Hop

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!'

- Eddie Murphy

Voice, Reason, Like, Tooth

Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.

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Like, Being, Almost, Harvard

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

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Old, Like, Very, Wilson

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.

- Eddie Murphy

Death, People, Meal, Row

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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Movie, Making, Going, Ingredients

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.

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Song, Think, Country, Impressionist

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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Think, Hollywood, Been, Reclusive

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

Think, Big, Some, Analyzing

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