Top 50 Eddie Murphy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority.”

— Eddie Murphy

2. “I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.”

— Eddie Murphy

3. “Flowers are the fastest way to a woman’s heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.”

— Eddie Murphy

4. “I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.”

— Eddie Murphy

5. “All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God – You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.”

— Eddie Murphy

6. “All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.”

— Eddie Murphy

7. “Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.”

— Eddie Murphy

8. “The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”

— Eddie Murphy

9. “I will blow your face clean off your face!”

— Eddie Murphy

10. “Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !”

— Eddie Murphy

11. “The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought ‘Oh, Lord.’ I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.”

— Eddie Murphy

12. “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

13. “I just voted for Jesse Jackson !”

— Eddie Murphy

14. “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

— Eddie Murphy

15. “I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years. I don’t look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.”

— Eddie Murphy

16. “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

17. “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

18. “I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.”

— Eddie Murphy

19. “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

20. “From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.”

— Eddie Murphy

21. “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.”

— Eddie Murphy

22. “After all these years, I’ve done well and I’m cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I’ve saved some paper, everybody’s healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it’s all good.”

— Eddie Murphy

23. “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

24. “Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don’t turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it’s all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert’s thumb up my ass.”

— Eddie Murphy

25. “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.”

— Eddie Murphy

26. “I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.”

— Eddie Murphy

27. “My wife ain’t gonna make love to me if I got no money!”

— Eddie Murphy

28. “I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!”

— Eddie Murphy

29. “The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.”

— Eddie Murphy

30. “This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?”

— Eddie Murphy

31. “I leave my house all the time! But I’m not at all the Hollywood parties. I’m grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I’m supposed to be home.”

— Eddie Murphy

32. “Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money.”

— Eddie Murphy

33. “The white man gets all the best catchphrases!”

— Eddie Murphy

34. “If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

— Eddie Murphy

35. “Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.”

— Eddie Murphy

36. “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

37. “The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.”

— Eddie Murphy

38. “I’m in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.”

— Eddie Murphy

39. “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.”

— Eddie Murphy

40. “I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.”

— Eddie Murphy

41. “I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I’m content to sit here and play my guitar all day.”

— Eddie Murphy

42. “We want the same effect as if someone’s house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.”

— Eddie Murphy

43. “My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.”

— Eddie Murphy

44. “I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.”

— Eddie Murphy

45. “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!”

— Eddie Murphy

46. “I’m in a whole different part of show business. I’m not even part of Shakespeare in Love.”

— Eddie Murphy

47. “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

48. “I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.”

— Eddie Murphy

49. “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 Murphy

50. “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.”

— Eddie Murphy