Richard Pryor Quotes

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

Richard Pryor

Quotes to Explore

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Natasha Leggero
- Dream
- Black
- Me
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

D. B. Weiss
- People
- Real
- Know
Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

Yoenis Cespedes
- Play
- Quality
- Pitching
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung
- Play
- Imagination
- Debt
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

Carla Gallo
- Play
- Drunk
- Director
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

Dan Jenkins
- Up
- Play
- Enough