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

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I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay... by Eddie Murphy

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

pizza phones cells

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before! by Eddie Murphy

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

tied shoes men

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.

laughing past years

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sou... by Eddie Murphy

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

three sound men

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.

concentration doe thinking

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!

basketball player character

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of my... by Eddie Murphy

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

comedian actors thinking

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

voice attitude moving

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!

sunday morning funny

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

might life funny

Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some... by Eddie Murphy

Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

black funny people

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the... by Eddie Murphy

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

driving force eye

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most co... by Eddie Murphy

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

stand-up-comedian comedian comfortable

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.

machines waiting moving

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

originals knows trying

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'... by Eddie Murphy

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

acting artist

Theres 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 didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

african-american actors firsts

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.

party house home

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

make-you-think use thinking

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate. by Eddie Murphy

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

spices figures girl