Eddie Murphy Quotes

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

We are all alike, on the inside.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

I think that every character, no matter how different they may be perceived, they all have their beautiful moments. All humans do. All people do.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

I'm human just like everyone.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.