Quotes By Richard Pryor

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.

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

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

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

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

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

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

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

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

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

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 can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

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.