Eddie Murphy People Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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