Richard Pryor Quotes
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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
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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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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
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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 don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
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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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I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
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I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
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It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
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I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.
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I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
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I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
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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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That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
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I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.