Richard Pryor Quotes
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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.
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Freebase? What's free about it?
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There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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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 won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
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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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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 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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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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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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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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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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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
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There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
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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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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.
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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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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!