Eddie Murphy

“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.”

“Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.”

“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.”

“There's 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 didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.”

“Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.”

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

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

“I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.”

“I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'”

“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.”

“The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.”

“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 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.”

“I think 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.”

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

“I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.”

“The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.”

“If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.”

“I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.”

“However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.”