Richard Pryor Quotes
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just 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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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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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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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
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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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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.
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Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
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Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
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Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.
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Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
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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.
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There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
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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.
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I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
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The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.