"Cop 3 was a very strange experience. The script wasn't any good, but I figured, "So what? I'll make it funny with Eddie." I mean, one of the worst scripts I ever read was the [original] Beverly Hills Cop. It was a piece of shit, that script. But the movie's very funny because Eddie Murphy and Martin Brest made it funny. Everything funny in that movie is not in the screenplay, so I thought, "Well, we'll do that.""

"But then I discovered on the first day when I started giving Eddie some shtick, he said, “You know, John… Axel Foley is an adult now. He’s not a wiseass anymore.” So, with Beverly Hills Cop 3, I had this strange experience where he was very professional, but he just wasn’t funny. I would try to put him in funny situations, and he would find a way to step around them. It’s an odd movie. There are things in it I like, but it’s an odd movie."

"The third Beverly Hills Cop was so horrible. I didn't want to leave it like that. The first two were cool and the third one is shitty. It's like, if you guys can come up to do a good one, then we can fix that old mess, and then the franchise is fixed again. So, I'm open to that possibility, cleaning up this old mess and making a good movie."

"I don’t think it’s gonna happen in March, but it is gonna be in Detroit. And before it happens, they’ve got to get that script right. That movie has to be right. The third Beverly Hills Cop was garbage. Those movies, when I travel overseas, people say [in a foreign accent] “Hey, Beverly Hills Cop! Axel Foley!” They call me that shit. All the movies I’ve done, and they call me that. If we do that movie, it has to be right. Not just thrown together to get a big check. I don’t need anymore of those."

"Leon Robinson - himself, cameo"

"Dennis Rodman - himself, cameo"

"Heavy D - himself, cameo"

"Howard Hewett - himself, cameo"

"LL Cool J as himself, cameo"

"Rudy Ray Moore - Nate"

"Faizon Love - Tiger J"

"Bernie Mac - Mr. Johnson"

"A.J. Johnson - James"

"Pierre Edwards - Ali"

"Jonathan Fried - Isaac"

"Luigi Amodeo - Antonio"

"Troy Byer - Tracy Shaw"

"Natalie Desselle-Reid - Tamika “Mickey”"

"Ian Richardson - Mr. Manley"

"Martin Landau - Mr. Donald Blakemore"

"Halle Berry - Denise “Nisi”"

"...A-re-ah-der-chee to you too... and some mozzerella and fettichinni... Hell yea!"

"My food is created to nourish the soul, okay? I haven't used pork since Thelma was on Good Times about to marry Ibe, the African prince and I said, "No, no, no, I'm waiting on my African prince to be my baby's daddy, so I stopped use pork, because I started using chicken broth! So I don't know what you're talking about." See what I cook is much healthier than that *bird* stuff Alfred is cookin' for him!""

"He said not to ever do that to me again. He said that if you do he'll have you taken off to prison and locked up and you'll never ever see me again, and you'll have to eat ice-cream on your own. (speaking to her mother after she tried to blame a parking ticket on her wanting ice-cream which she did not request)"

", the daughter of Susan Sarandon"

"- Jack Irwin"

"- Gail Letterfine"

"You know what? I'm really hungry and it's not like we're not at Denny's. So, if someone comes in and sees me eat duck à l'orange, who knows what effect it'll have on my life? The "a" before l'orange is not spoken and the whole phrase "duck l'orange" is dubbed...???"

"- Hisham Badir"

"- Josh Spritzer"

"Natalie Portman - Ann August"

"Susan Sarandon - Adele August"

"She is doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons. (speaking about her character, Adele, on the Anywhere But Here DVD)"

"A story of a mother who knows best... and a daughter who knows better."

"My daddy always used to say “Be optimistic, doncha be a grumpy, when the road gets bumpy, just smile, smile, smile be happy! Don’t wear a long face it’s never in style, be optimistic and smile!”"

"Even if you can't stand her, even if you hate her, there's some mystery about my mother."

"Mom, Mom! I'm sorry but you have to understand I was just doing an audition. They wanted me to...no one would even know it was you... You know every morning I wake up and I don't even want to be here. Who would wanna be with you? You're just a crazy, middle aged, unemployed woman with a, with a child to support. Why can't our lives just be normal?"

"I'll always have a place in my heart for the Los Angeles Police Department."

"That summer I turned seventeen... and started planning my escape."

"Philip Stuckey: [about Morse] He mortgaged everything he owns, right down to his underwear, to secure a loan from the bank."

"Those are two very specific examples of crackheads."

"Fifty bucks, Grandpa. For seventy-five, the wife can watch."

"Yo, Viv, babe. Would ya come down here? The Sphincter Police won't let me through."

"People put you down enough, you start to believe it."

"Baby, I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna wanna let me go."

"I think you have a lot of special gifts, Edward."