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Stand-up comedian

Eddie Murphy, born on April 3, 1961, is an accomplished American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director. Renowned for his unique comedic style and exceptional acting skills, he has won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Murphy's career began in his childhood, gaining widespread recognition for his role in the film 'Beverly Hills Cop' after making his breakthrough on the television show 'Saturday Night Live'.

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“Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.”

Writing Taste Acquire Meant To Be Were Not Meant To Be

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“White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.”

Knows Needs Play Facts Guy Causes Black White Known Boys Roles Slave Ass Idiot Oscars Nominations Retarded White Guys

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“The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.”

Pain Felt My Own Lord Dying Shots Standing Shoulders Chests Showers Bent Spine Towels

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“Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.”

Way Wells Heart Flower Cages Messy Ribs Rib Cage

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“I just voted for Jesse Jackson !”

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“If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

Ifs Country Dies Opportunity Grows Watches Talent Planes Crash Aeroplanes Great Talent Plane Crashes Rare Opportunities Aries Man

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“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.”

Made Successful Exception

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“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.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Political Natural Economy International Get Better Ireland Catastrophe

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“Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.”

Knows Has Beens Made Ends Turns Decision Millions Grew Projects Grew Up Ass Cop Thumbs Roger Bad Decision Thumbs Up

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“I will blow your face clean off your face!”

Faces Clean Blow Your Face Heist

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“I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.”

I Can Girl Figures Spices Spice Girls

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“From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.”

Seems Flow Dialogue

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“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.”

Feels Years Wells Different Done Kids Beautiful Healthy Paper Comfortable Smart Skins Saved Different Things

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“I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.”

Years Looks Havens Computer Newspapers Filters

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

Thinking Actors Comedian

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“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.”

Knows Sometimes Effort Work Out Ingredients Collaborative Effort

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“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. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.”

Ifs Thinking Giving House Rooms Idols Entertainers Bogart

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

People Moving Voice Attitude Quality Observing Quirks Impressionists

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“I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.”

Want Wells Intellect I Want A Woman

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

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“I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.”

Age Broke Fixing

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“It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one”

Bigs Turns Mistake Basketball Shots Nba

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“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.”

Ifs Want Kids Emotion Cry Mood Good Mood

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

People Bigs Funny Black Comedy Lips Ass Black People Jagger Delirious

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“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!”

Ifs Funny White Morning Comedy Seeing Newspapers Sunday Drawers Sunday Morning

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“This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.”

People Cities Draws Fairs Distance Far Away Twins County

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

Life Might Funny Donkey Dreamworks

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“Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.”

Has Beens Made Decision Bad Decision

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“All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.”

Doe Body Inspiration Voice Creative Higher Intuition Spots Shells Higher Power

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“I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.”

Knows Looks Faces Hours Interesting Get Up Makeup Your Face Seamless

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“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.”

Thinking Two Together Jobs Guy Relationship Swim Crucial Good Job Two Guys Sink Or Swim

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About the Author

Born: April 3, 1961
Known for: Stand-up comedian
Quotes: 81

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