Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Murphy - Page 2

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"?

There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.

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

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

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

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!

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.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

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.

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

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

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.

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.

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

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.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.

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

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 ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

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

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

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

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

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

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

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.

You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I will blow your face clean off your face!

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

White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.

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

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

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

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

I just voted for Jesse Jackson !

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

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.

The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.

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.

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.