Murphy Quotes

• She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.

  Samuel Beckett

  Next, Firsts, Ends

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.

  Sonya Sones

  Bus Stops, Arms, Chill

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Alternatives, Sun, Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

  Samuel Beckett

  Book, Obscurity, Obscure

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• I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Kids, Careers

  "Ice Cube talks Are We There Yet?, xXx 2, life in the hood and more!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. January 20, 2005.

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• 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.'

  Brett Ratner

  Years, Beverly Hills, Facts

  "The GQA: Brett Ratner". Interview with Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Gold

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• 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

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• The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Saturday, Materials

  "Tracy Morgan as the New Black". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 25, 2010.

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• I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

  Chris Rock

  Years, Comedian, Cameras

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

  Joelle Carter

  Dark, Play, Balls

  "Joelle Carter Talks JUSTIFIED and Desire to Shoot an Indie Feature in Florida". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Unique, Television, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  People, Generosity, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to “SNL” was his “Best Of” VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements, and engage with the audience.

  Taran Killam

  Play, Long, People

  "Taran Killam Tells Us About The New ‘SNL’ Season: ‘It’s Such A Positive Energy’". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.

  David Edelstein

  Eye, Cutting, Glasses

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• I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.

  Logan Marshall-Green

  Baseball, Careers, Fans

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

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• I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

  Kevin Hart

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

  Richard Schiff

  Mean, Actors, Als

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.

  Tracy Morgan

  Inspiration, Boys, Genre Is

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• He's a very funny and very nice man. When you read the script, you want to stick with it. But when you're with Eddie Murphy you've got to improvise. He's always making jokes and making me crack up when the camera's on.

  Raven-Symone

  Nice, Men, Cameras

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• They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Rip, Humor

  "Kids Choose Green Day as Favorite Band". www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2006.

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• If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Would Be, Departure

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of seeing the world sometimes, and he's somehow able to translate that into entertainment for the masses, at the right time in pop culture.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Grateful, Unique, Fearless

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

  Kevin Hart

  Rocks, Names, Guy

  "Getting Real with Kevin Hart". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 17, 2014.

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• My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.

  Raven-Symone

  Role Models, Parent, Roles

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