Quotes from Eddie Murphy

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

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.

Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'

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

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

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

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.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

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

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

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

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

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.

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.

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

'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

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

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.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!