Eddie Murphy Quotes

I grew up wanting to entertain.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.

I am an entertainer.

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Acting was my first love before music.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.