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Richard Pryor
1940 – 2005 • American • Actor
44
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Collected Meditations
Showing 44 quotesI 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
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
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
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.— Richard Pryor
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
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.— Richard Pryor
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.— Richard Pryor
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.— Richard Pryor
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
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.— Richard Pryor
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?— Richard Pryor
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.— Richard Pryor