Quotes By Richard Pryor

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

I was an only child.

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

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

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

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?

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

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

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.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

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.

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

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

I believe in divine forces and energies.

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?

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

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

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.

I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.

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.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

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

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.