106 Quotes by Charlie Murphy

There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.

I wake up every morning, and I am ecstatic.

People who know me know that I'm the last person on earth that wants to be somebody else.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

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.

I bombed in front of 5,000 people. Anybody that's ever stood in front of 5,000 people that don't like them can tell you, it's an energy associated with that. You don't want to feel that. You ask yourself, 'Do you really really want to do this?'

I feel blessed to be able to do my stand up comedy all over the world, because some people never even leave New York.

My background is part of my comedy. Your experiences are where the jokes come from.

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.