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.

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

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

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!