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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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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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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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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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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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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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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
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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.
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I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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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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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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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 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.
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