Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dava Carvey, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell - they're all the best.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

'Tower Heist?' That is a movie that it's hard not to name-drop, but, it's a crew of five, and it's Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, me, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck. And we're like, on a heist.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.