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. Eddie Murphy More Quotes by Eddie Murphy More Quotes From Eddie Murphy 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. Eddie Murphy exception successful made There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters. Eddie Murphy done attention negative I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set. Eddie Murphy tvs home night 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 guitar want play I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. Eddie Murphy position want Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home. Eddie Murphy technique wish home 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 stars writing way I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s. Eddie Murphy fixing broke age My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money! Eddie Murphy making-love wife money 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 smart beautiful kids 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 analyzing enough want I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love. Eddie Murphy show-business different shows It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one Eddie Murphy nba basketball mistake Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. Eddie Murphy groups growing-up listening 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. Eddie Murphy ingredients effort work-out From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic. Eddie Murphy dialogue flow seems I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me. Eddie Murphy dying mean thinking My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad. Eddie Murphy day-care dad house 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. Eddie Murphy entertainers idols house The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. Eddie Murphy competition tradition
