Charlie Murphy Quotes

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?

Charlie Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how scared and tired I was, and I thought, 'This is what reading should be.' I'm utterly transported out of my current situation.

Jennifer Egan

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I'm sick of seeing my face on television.

Andrew Breitbart

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I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

Robert Mondavi

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I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.

Michael Moore

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

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I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

Domhnall Gleeson

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Experimentation is an active science.

Claude Bernard

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That's the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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It seems like people have to get their thrills somehow.

Brie Larson

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I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.

Allan Guthrie

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Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Pras Michel

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To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

Susan Cain

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