Best 57 quotes of Richard Pryor on MyQuotes

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.

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

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I believe in divine forces and energies.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss 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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

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?

When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.