Richard Pryor Quotes

• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in God, Life

  Tags in Consider

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Met, Grow Up, Critic

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Anyone, Longer

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scared, Thrill

• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Again, Married

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dying, Realize

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honorable, Suffering

• 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!

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in America

  Tags in Feel, After

• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prison, Glad, Pay

• I was an only child.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Only, Child

• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in School

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Though

• I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Liberation

• If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don’t feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there’s too much that I still want to do.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Thought

• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Life

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Line

• I’m not for integration and I’m not against it.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integration, Against

• It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Struggle, Chance, Refused

• 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?

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Earth, Pollution, Planet

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Hypocrisy

Richard Pryor (47)

Birth:	1st December, 1940
Death:	10th December, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Critic, Writer

About

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets.

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