Richard Pryor Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

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.

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.

Freebase? What's free about it?

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

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 know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

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

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

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

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

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

The MS really started going downhill in 1990.

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.

If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.