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Don't take life for granted.
Don't take people for granted.
I don't hang out with soft cats.
I don't think I have any hobbies.
My whole life is a funny moment, man.
I guess I must have a good metabolism.
Gangs are formed by kids who want love.
Don't underestimate the power of the Web.
The audience is my hardest and best critic.
I wake up every morning, and I am ecstatic.
I would say I was an all-American teenager.
I don't have beef with anyone, only martians.
I've been in a lot of different arenas of life.
I was into basketball, football, karate, boxing.
Aaron McGruder is a straight-up G. I call him Champ.
My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.
Every script I've read for 'Black Jesus' has been hilarious.
Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.
I like to tease people. I hate when people do it to me, though.
If you don't know things, you know, you just go by your instinct.
When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.
I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.
As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.
If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.
There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.
I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.
I never went around saying who my brother was. Everybody else was doing that.
I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.
I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.
I respect everybody. You don't have to earn my respect. You earn my disrespect.
It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.
I protected Eddie. He never had to fight, because people knew who his older brother was.
What I'm pretty much giving you when you see me onstage is me; it's not a fake character.
Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.
I don't like to go to regular, big stores - I don't like to wear anything anybody else does.
When you don't have money, you fall under the influence of anybody who has the appearance of having it.
I used to irritate people. I'd give them a hard time, and when it drove them crazy, that was funny to me.
I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.
I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.
I was a bodyguard for somebody I love. That's not a good combination. I was always ready to beat somebody up.
If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.
If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.
I was always proud of my brother. He helped me tremendously, but we're family, so we were never in his shadow.
My name is Charlie Murphy. I was born into this name, and I've been rolling how I've been rolling my whole life.
When I was nine years old, I was in a movie called, 'Landlord' with Pearl Bailey, Lou Gossett, and Beau Bridges.
I don't think there's a person in the industry that wouldn't love to work with Dave Chappelle. That's a no-brainer.
I feel blessed to be able to do my stand up comedy all over the world, because some people never even leave New York.
Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?
In the military, the reason you take the right path is they eliminate other choices. I needed that. They set me straight.
Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'