Eddie Murphy Quotes

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

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

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.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

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

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

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

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.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

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.

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

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

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.

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.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

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.

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

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.

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 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.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

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.

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

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

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 and have a show like nobody ever had before.

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

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.

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.

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

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

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

I just voted for Jesse Jackson !

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

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.

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