Richard Pryor Quotes
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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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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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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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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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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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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 went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
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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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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.