Poll: Funniest Eddie Murphy Quote

48 Hrs. (1982)

Eddie Murphy (Reggie): Jack... Tell me a story. Nick Nolte (Jack): F##k you! Eddie Murphy (Reggie): Oh, that's one of my favorites.

Trading Places (1983)

[Sitting in a jacuzzi] Eddie Murphy (Billy Ray): [after demonstrating some fake karate moves] That's called the "quart of blood" technique. You do that, a quart of blood will drop out of a man's body.

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Eddie Murphy (Axel Foley): I never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while, 'cause I ordered some pizza.

The Golden Child (1986)

Eddie Murphy (Chandler Jarrell): So, I gotta go to Tibet, because I'm the Chosen One. Why can't anybody choose me to go to the Bahamas?

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

[Axel sees Rosewood with a huge pistol] Eddie Murphy (Axel Foley): Yo, man! What's that for? Judge Reinhold (Billy Rosewood): After the shootout at the club, I figured I needed more firepower. Eddie Murphy (Axel Foley): Yo man, we gotta talk, seriously. Who do you think you are, Clint Eastwood? Dirty Rosewood?

Coming to America (1988)

[interrupts the end credits] Eddie Murphy (Saul): Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait, stop right there. Listen. Stop right there a minute. A man goes into a restaurant. You listenin'? A man goes into a restaurant. He sits down, he's havin' a bowl of soup. He says to the waiter; "Waiter, come taste the soup." Waiter says; "Is there something wrong with the soup?" He says; "Taste the soup." He says; "Is there something wrong with the soup? Is the soup too hot?" He says; "Will you taste the soup?", "What's wrong is the soup to cold?", "Will you just taste the soup?", "All right, I'll taste the soup. Where's the spoon?", "Ah-ha!" [chuckles]

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Jon Tenney (Levine): They got F##kin' machine guns! I thought you said they had no guns! Eddie Murphy (Axel Foley): They must've changed their world view!

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Kadeem Hardison (Julius Jones): Hey, man, my pops always said the quickest way to a woman's heart - the church. Eddie Murphy (Maximillian): It's actually through the ribcage, but that's a bit messy.

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Eddie Murphy (Buddy Love): [to Reggie] Ok, fat jokes! You wanna do fat jokes? Eddie Murphy (Buddy Love): Your mother is so fat, she fell in the Grand Canyon and got stuck!

Doctor Dolittle (1998)

Albert Brooks (Tiger): [John is about to operate on Jake, the tiger] Have you ever done this operation before? Eddie Murphy (Dr. John Dolittle): Yeah, once in medical school. But it was to a cadaver. But my professor told me I did such a good job that, had my patient not been dead, he would've lived. Albert Brooks (Tiger): [sarcastically] Very comforting, Doc.

Bowfinger (1999)

[Bowfinger is interviewing Jiff for his movie] Steve Martin (Bowfinger): Do you have any experience in motion pictures? Eddie Murphy (Jiff Ramsey): Uh, well, yeah, quite a bit, actually, I have quite a bit of experience. I'm an active, uh, renter at Blockbuster, and I, um, attend the filmed cinema, uh, as much as possible, weekly, bi-weekly, inter-week-... intermediately.

Shrek (2001)

Eddie Murphy (Donkey): I just know, before this is over, I'm gonna need a whole lot of serious therapy. Look at my eye twitchin'.

Shrek 2 (2004)

Eddie Murphy (Donkey): [to Puss] If we ever need an expert on licking ourselves, we'll give you a call.

Dreamgirls (2006)

Anika Noni Rose (Lorrell Robinson): What Does R&B stand for? Eddie Murphy (James 'Thunder' Early): Rough and Black.