Richard Pryor Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

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

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

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

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

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

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.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

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

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.

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.

I believe in divine forces and energies.

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.

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

I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

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

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