Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Richard Pryor
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Home
Right
Going
Someplace
Always
Bought
Would
Died
Parents
Parent
Thought
More quotes by Richard Pryor
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
Richard Pryor
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
Richard Pryor
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
Richard Pryor
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor
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
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor
In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.
Richard Pryor
You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
Richard Pryor
I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
Richard Pryor
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
Richard Pryor
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor
All humor is rooted in pain.
Richard Pryor
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
Richard Pryor
My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
Richard Pryor
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
Richard Pryor
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Richard Pryor
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.
Richard Pryor
I believe in divine forces and energies.
Richard Pryor
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor