There’s pride and self-esteem, and then there’s whatever magical confidence Eddie Murphy has. “My most important blessing is that I love myself,” the legendary comedian and movie star, 64, tells PEOPLE in a rare deep-dive interview for this week's issue.
00:00Being Eddie is a great thing. I love being myself and I love having my family around and I love that, you know, I'm in this amazing business for so long.
00:142026 is my 50th year in show business, so it's worked out that this kind of commemorates, you know, 50 years.
00:22I'm famously a super private person, so I was like, well, let me kind of give them a glimpse of me and explain and let the young audiences that don't know the thing that I just walked out of heaven into Hollywood, let them see how I got here and how I got this business was a whole different business, a whole different landscape when I got into this business.
00:47I thought it's a unique American story.
00:52Yeah, because I was a baby when I lost my pops, you know, my family, just the early part of my life, it was a lot of, you know, trauma, you know, and we're shaped by, you know, that stuff.
01:07I always wanted to have family. I never knew I would have 10 kids and now it's the best thing ever. You should have as many kids as you can afford.
01:15People always say, Nick Cannon, he had like 12 kids, right?
01:18I think so.
01:19Yeah, he got 12, and I didn't have that many kids when I was that young, but, you know, God bless him.
01:26It's great to see, you know, your impact or see you influence or impact that you had on other artists, because I feel a kinship with comedians.
01:37Comedians and all the people that were on SNL and cast members at SNL, we went to the same school together or we had alumni members.
01:46I feel like connected to them, so it's great when you see the young ones coming up and giving it up to you.
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