Richard Pryor Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
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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 don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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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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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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Freebase? What's free about it?
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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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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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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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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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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
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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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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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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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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 love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.