A biography for Eddie Murphyhasn’t been written yet.
“I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”
“Ultimately, 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; that's what all this stuff is leading to.”
“I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'”
“אני עושה את זה כל הזמן, אני סדיסט: אני אוהב ללכת לסופרמרקט ולצפות באמהות מאבדות את זה, ומפרקות לילדים שלהן את הצורה.”
“מאז שצחקתי על הומואים בהופעה הקודמת שלי אני מפחד לנסוע לסן פרנסיסקו – הם מחפשים אותי!”
“איך אמורים לרקוד את הליכת הירח? אתה בא להציע למישהי לרקוד איתך ואתה כבר בורח ממנה...”
“חבר שלי התקשר אליי ואמר: מייקל ג'קסון נעלב מהבדיחות שלך והוא מעוצבן. אמרתי לו: אז? מה הוא יעשה? ילך עליי הליכת ירח?”
“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.”
“As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.”