Charlie Murphy Quotes

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

Charlie Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 12, 1959 - April 12, 2017

Topics

FunnyLoveTruthPeopleWake UpUp

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

Jessie Cave

GoodMeBookThinkI CanGood Book

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

FamilyWorldStartRoyaltyYouKnow

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

Rob Walton

SocietySickRealitySeriouslyMean

I care about national sovereignty of America.

Mike Cernovich

PeopleHimWhoTrumpHired

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.

Jonathan Freeman

MoviesKidAlwaysUpVillainsLiked

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeWomanIndependenceRunPayOwn

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

Dick Dale

TodayUpside DownGuitarDownPlay

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Douglas Coupland

CreativeRecognitionPlacesBecome

My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.

Doreen Cronin

DogWriteKindergartenTellSecond

The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

Claire Forlani

WeatherYourEnglandSpiritsReally

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Bonnie Somerville

MeMomDoingSeeLittleJust

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

Synyster Gates

WeirdMoreOverThingsComposition

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