Latest Eddie Murphy Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Wish, Technique

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Good Things, Feels

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thinking, Make You Think, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Teenager, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Negative, Attention, Done

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2011.

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Want, Analyzing, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Artist, Long, Performing

  "Exclusive: Eddie Murphy on His Return to Music and the Stage". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. September 9, 2013.

• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Want, Able, Stuff

  "Eddie Murphy on his return to music and the stage" by Brian Hiatt, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2013.