Zitat des Tages von Eddie Murphy:
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
You know, 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'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
I think 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.
I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
Ultimately, 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; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.