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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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I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm …

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My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company …

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As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

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Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the…

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When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.

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My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

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When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

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For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.

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The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.

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