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.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

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

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

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.

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.

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

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 won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.

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

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

I believe in divine forces and energies.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

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

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.