Eddie Murphy Quotes

I do think I'm a character actor.

Any good actor is a character actor.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

I consider myself a character actor.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

When I believe in an actor, I believe there is something in that actor.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

I feel that I am a good actor.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.