Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 7

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.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

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

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.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

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 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.

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

I'm going through a humbling experience these days.

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.

Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew up.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life.

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