Eddie Murphy Quotes

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up front because I was too small.

I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.

I knew I wasn't going to be a dunker.

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

There will be a time when I physically cannot do this sport.

I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.

People said I'm too big to play football.

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I'm tall, lanky and athletic.

I want to be an all-around basketball player.

I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.

I have never followed any sport in my life, I was always into music. So, portraying Sandeep Singh was challenging for me.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.