Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 6

115 quotes

See, I had some drugs and shit right now, I wouldn't give a fuck. But I'd come off stage, and I still wouldn't give a fuck. Then, by the time you're 50, a lotta 'no-givin-a-fuck', you missed part your life.

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?

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

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

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

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

I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

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

I don't understand what goes on some times, right, cuz here we are in this theater, we gettin along just fine. We go outside and the shit change.

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

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