1. 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. 2. I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
4. If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
5. 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.
7. 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.
9. 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.
11. 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!
13. I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
15. Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?
17. This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
18. I want a woman that's going to arouse my intellect as well as my lions.
20. Jacuzzi? See, I knew y'all was faggots!
21. This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in my life. This thing is nicer than my apartment.
22. In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.
24. Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.
25. I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face and you see where the makeup starts and it stops and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.
27. I wish people would stop making fun of fat people... they have enough shit on their plates.
28. It sure is a beautiful day. Know why? My wife walked out on me. Isn't that nice? I'm so glad the bitch is gone.
29. It occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is you turn them into poor people.
31. The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
32. That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the fucking room. I don't give a fuck who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.
34. I would do a scene with a little kid and they'd turn to me afterwards and say: "I love you Eddie Murphy". That's a new thing for me, to have a co-star in a scene turn to me and tell me they love me. In "48 Hours" Nick Nolte never turned to me and said "I love you Ed".
35. It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
37. The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
38. Does anyone have a mother that would hit you with a shoe? I had a mother that would throw a shoe at you at the drop of a dime. And fuck you up wherever she was aiming. So by the time I was like ten, my mother was like Clint Eastwood with a shoe.
40. White people can't dance. I'm not being racist it's true. Just like when white people say black people have big lips, it's not racist it's true. Black people have big lips, white people can't dance. Some brothers will be in the club and white people are like: "What are those niggers doing in here?" They watchin' y'all dance. And they're like: "Look at these crazy muthafuckas". Y'all be stepping on people's feet and hitting one another.
42. I'm sadistic. I go to the supermarket to watch mothers lose it and beat the shit out of their kids.
43. It's important to spend time with them... I want my grandchildren to be brought up the same way I raised my children.
45. I never had inspirations to be in this movie business. I was always a stand up comedian, that's what I am more than anything.
47. White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.
49. There's a song out now called "Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent". So when a man asks a woman: "Hey, baby! What's going on?" The woman will say: "The rent, motherfucker!"
51. The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.
52. I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
53. 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.
55. I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of "Shakespeare in Love".
56. Being single has changed drastically with my age. A lot of things are different. Especially being single now. Because when I used to go out in the old days I was the cool dude in the club with the glasses on in the corner. You can't do that when you're 49. You got your glasses on in the corner and you look creepy. A lot has changed.
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