Quotes About Entertainment

My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration.

I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's stand-up act when I was little, and just being mesmerized.

I think Eddie Murphy is the greatest comedian. I do think that Richard Pryor is the Godfather, but Eddie Murphy, in my opinion, has every comedic category in his arsenal. He can roast you. He can freestyle. He can host. He was LeBron James before we even saw LeBron James.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dava Carvey, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell - they're all the best.

Eddie Murphy is a great entertainer.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

Me and my mother, we both love Eddie Murphy.

If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Sam Kinison and Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I want to be of that ilk, I don't want to just make you laugh, I want to make you think.

'205' should be called 'Buddy Murphy Live.' The championship is on my shoulder, and so is the show.

Mr. Murphy is really, really amazing. I have admired him from the time that I saw the first season of 'American Horror Story.' I watched 'Glee,' but once I saw 'American Horror Story,' I was like: 'I'm working for him.'

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood,' about the beginnings of the film industry, made me laugh and cry.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

I got very bored with the music business.

Music and the music business are two different things.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I don't get bored. In the music business you get used to a lot of waiting around.