Charlie Murphy

“Charlie Murphy has been around for a long time. I've worked with a lot of exciting artists, and it was a thrill to be around to watch them display their skills.”

“I guess I must have a good metabolism.”

“Aaron McGruder is a straight-up G. I call him Champ.”

“When I was nine, my father passed away. It's one thing when you're a kid and your father wasn't there for you. My father was there, and then he was taken away.”

“'Chappelle's Show' was like the Tupac of TV shows. It came out, it got everybody's attention, it was a bright shining star, but it burned out, and for some strange reason, it burned out quick.”

“If you don't know things, you know, you just go by your instinct.”

“I may make you angry or make you feel sorry for me, but in the end, you appreciate my show because it's not one-dimensional.”

“Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy has all those things, and he can sing. A comedian is a bunch of stuff; it's not just one area.”

“I don't hang out with soft cats.”

“You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.”

“I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.”

“If I look at my family tree and follow every generation before us, going all the way back to the slaves, then Eddie Murphy is the highest achievement as far as my bloodline is concerned. How could you be jealous? You can only be proud, unless you got some serious issues.”

“I feel blessed to be able to do my stand up comedy all over the world, because some people never even leave New York.”

“I didn't want to do anything that could possibly tarnish my brother's career.”

“I would say I was an all-American teenager.”

“I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.”

“Everything was a lot more challenging for me because of who my brother was. If I were in the film, someone would had said that I got the part because Eddie's in the film. If I wrote a script, folks would say that I didn't really write that: that Eddie did and I threw my name on it.”

“There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.”

“You make shows, and you don't go into it thinking, 'Our show's going to be number one'; you go into it hoping to stay on the air.”

“I was into basketball, football, karate, boxing.”