American - Actor | June 12, 1959 - April 12, 2017
My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.
Charlie Murphy
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I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and getting into Hollywood.
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I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.
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Other comedians got love for me. But don't get it twisted - I'm not a clown, I'm a comedian and work hard as an artist. Clowns go to college.
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I've been called Mr. Eddie's brother, but I don't trip on that. Whether you realize it or not, that's a sign of disrespect. If you address me, call me by my name. You can't lower me or make me feel uncomfortable.
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I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.
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If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.
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I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.
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I protected Eddie. He never had to fight, because people knew who his older brother was.
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Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.
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I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting office, and I spent the next six years in the Navy.
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I was the dude you didn't wanna go to school with, because I would come to school and get on your shoes. If you had a hole in your pants, I'd talk about it all day long. If your hair was messed up, if you had buck teeth, I'd talk about it all day long. And I made people laugh doing it, but it wasn't like I thought I was a comedian.
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