Murphy Quotes - Page 5

• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  Artie Lange

  Insulting, Sound, Want

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.

  Gurney Norman

  Memories, Kentucky, Proud

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• I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Successful, Law

  "Family Values". Interview with Jennifer M. Wood, www.moviemaker.com. February 3, 2007.

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• Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

  Jim Butcher

  Sight, Space, Shadow

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.50, Penguin

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• When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Thinking, Excited

  Source: collider.com

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• I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me... And he basically outlined 'American Horror Story' for me and said that there's a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I'd like you to play it.

  Denis O'Hare

  Character, Phones, Horror Stories

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• My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Mtv, Goal

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Labels, Records, My Friends

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• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Morning, Boss, Next

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• In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.

  Martha Stout

  Lying, Men, Hunting

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• I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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

  Alice Barrett

  Lasts, Episodes, Brown

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• Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

  Kevin Myers

  Country, Peace, War

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• I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Jobs, Kissing, Wife

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

  Jim Butcher

  White, Nurse, Dresses

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.141, Penguin Group

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• An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

  Donald Faison

  Would Be, Imagine, Jamie

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• Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

  Tracy Morgan

  Doors, Icons, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Laughing, Good Times

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

  Neal Brennan

  Thinking, White, Different Experiences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

  Jordan Peele

  Baby, Mean, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• "Bruce" was an Eddie Murphy film, so there was a whole different vibe, working on that film, as opposed to working on a [Adam] Sandler film, which I'd done a few of. First of all, there were tons of kids running around. I'm surprised I ever had a kid after doing that film.

  Kevin Nealon

  Running, Kids, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

  Chris Rock

  Comedian, Spanx

  "Eddie Murphy awarded Mark Twain Prize: Here are the parts you might not see on the PBS special" by Peggy McGlone, www.washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2015.

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• One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, People, Intuition

  "Matt Bomer Geeks Out Over Kathy Bates, Teases His New Ahs: Hotel Character". Interview with Fred Topel, editorialstaging.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

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• Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jobs, Two, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

  Regina King

  Fun, Character, Boundaries

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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