Charlie Murphy Quotes

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I was not so-and-so's daughter or sister or dating so-and-so.

It is easier for a star kid to get noticed than for a person coming from a non-film background. That being said, I didn't get my first movie because I was Jackie Shroff's son.

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.

This town was built on nepotism.

We had less qualified trumping more qualified people just because of their political connections.

I stand by it. I take the criticism for it. I think it's unfair, but yes, there is a thing about nepotism, and we all try to respect it.

I didn't want to land an audition because I was 'The daughter of...' I never wanted to give anyone the opportunity to say, 'You only got the role because of who you are.'

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn't exist.

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

Of course nepotism exists, but if star kids are not good at what they do, they won't last.

There is no nepotism in the Hindi film industry.

Nepotism exists - not just in Bollywood but in every profession in India.

The problem with Deep South to me is that there was a group that were tight with the boss, and they would always go out and drink and have barbeques. Then, when WWE would say, 'Who should we look at?' Bill Demott would say, 'Oh, look at this guy and this guy.' Of course those were his buddies.

Nepotism has always existed in Bollywood.