Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
Eddie MurphyI 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.
Eddie MurphyI've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie MurphyI 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.
Eddie MurphySeventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.
Eddie Murphy