Richard Pryor Quotes
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You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
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I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
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All humor is rooted in pain.
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When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
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In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.
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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
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I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.