Quotes from Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

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.

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.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

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.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.

Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.

Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?