Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 4

If you want some pussy, you'll talk all that shit with them. 'Hey, yeah, sure,, the cosmos.. sure..'

I couldn't stop. I put the pipe down. It jumped back in my hand.

Freebase? What's free about it?

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.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

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.

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 also say that if there isn't a response to what's been happening to the people out there, there's going to be a great explosion one of these days, and this will not be one of the nicest places to live.

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.

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

I had to stop drinkin', cuz I got tired of waking in my car driving ninety.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

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

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

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