Best 71 quotes of Eddie Murphy on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

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

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.

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.

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

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

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

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!

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

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.

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.

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 an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

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.

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.

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!

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I will blow your face clean off your face!

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.

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.

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

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

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

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.