Richard Pryor Quotes
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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 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 urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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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.
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To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.
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When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
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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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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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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 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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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.