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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
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Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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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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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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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.
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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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I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
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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.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
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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.
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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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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.
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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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