Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 7

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.

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'm going back out on the road. I love it, but I do need the money. It's a very safe high for me.

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

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

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

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.

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'm going through a humbling experience these days.

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

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

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.