Quote

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

Richard Pryor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
Worst
Words
Best
Great
Things
Life

More quotes by Richard Pryor

Image
I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Richard Pryor
Image
I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
Richard Pryor
Image
All humor is rooted in pain.
Richard Pryor
Image
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
Richard Pryor
Image
Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
Richard Pryor
Image
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor
Image
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.
Richard Pryor
Image
If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
Richard Pryor
Image
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor
Image
Everyone carries around his own monsters.
Richard Pryor
Image
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Richard Pryor
Image
You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
Richard Pryor
Image
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.
Richard Pryor
Image
I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
Richard Pryor
Image
Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor
Image
The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
Richard Pryor
Image
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor
Image
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor
Image
I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor
Image
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor