Richard Pryor Quotes

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

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?

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

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.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

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.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

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.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.

Freebase? What's free about it?

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

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.

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.

There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

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.

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.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

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.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

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.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

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.

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.

I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.

If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.