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Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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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.
Richard Pryor
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Richard Pryor
Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
Richard Pryor
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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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
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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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
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.
Richard Pryor
Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
Richard Pryor
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
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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.
Richard Pryor
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
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Richard Pryor
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
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
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