Quotes from 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.

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.

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

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

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

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

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.

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

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!

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

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.