Richard Pryor

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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!

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

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 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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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