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All humor is rooted in pain.
Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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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.
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It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
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I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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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.
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I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
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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.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
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Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.
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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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