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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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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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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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I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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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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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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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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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.
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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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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 ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
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The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
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