Quotes from Eddie Murphy

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.

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

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.

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

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.

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.

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

You know, 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.

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.

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

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

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 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.

I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.