Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

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.

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

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy.