"A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him."

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Scott Raab

#School Quotes #Talking Quotes #Two Quotes

“British girls are as temperamental as Americans.”
“That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.”
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.”
“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”
“If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.”
“I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.”
“You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.”

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