Top 30 Eddie Murphy Quotes

I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

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

I love ‘Trading Places,’ but ‘Coming to America’ has one of the things I like to do – I like the multiple characters.

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.

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.

I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that’s because of my ear as an impressionist.

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.

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

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’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.

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

‘SNL’ is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That’s the show I got known from.

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.

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.

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!’

As you get older, you get different, and I’m a mushier, softer person as I get older.

You know why they think I’m reclusive? I don’t do the Hollywood stuff. I’ve never been on the circuit.

I’m not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That’s the show now.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write – and this was before the Internet – it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.

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

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