Richard Pryor Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
-
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
-
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
-
I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
-
When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
-
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
-
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
-
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
-
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
-
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
-
Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
-
At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.
-
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
-
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
-
My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
-
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.
-
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
