Charlie Murphy

Don't take life for granted. ”

I've been in a lot of different arenas of life. ”

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was. ”

When you don't have money, you fall under the influence of anybody who has the appearance of having it. ”

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah. ”

If the 'Chappelle's Show' had stayed on, I seriously doubt I would have developed this fast as a stand-up comedian. I probably would never have taken stand-up comedy really seriously. ”

I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and getting into Hollywood. ”

My background is part of my comedy. Your experiences are where the jokes come from. ”

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters. ”

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy. ”