Top 100 Pryor's Quotes
#1. 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!
Richard Pryor
#2. Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor
#3. It's not our mistakes that define us, but what we do about them.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#4. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
Erykah Badu
#5. When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.
Tracy Morgan
#6. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#7. My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.
Tracy Morgan
#8. Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.
Pauline Kael
#9. Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
Mark Pryor
#10. 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.
Richard Pryor
#11. Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.
Mark Pryor
#12. I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
Richard Pryor
#13. 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.
Richard Pryor
#14. I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.
Mike Epps
#15. Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
Bill Cosby
#16. Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Richard Pryor
#17. Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
Richard Pryor
#19. I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
Richard Pryor
#20. I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.
Richard Pryor
#22. I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.
David Rees
#23. I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
Richard Pryor
#24. And now here we are," he said. "Both knowing what you are, both knowing what I am. And that, my little fledgling sacrifice, must make me your worst fucking nightmare.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#25. People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
Tracy Morgan
#26. My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.
Dorian Missick
#27. If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
Richard Pryor
#28. Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.
Calvin Pryor
#29. 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.
Richard Pryor
#30. You breathe too fast to be convincing,' he goaded.
'You don't breathe enough to judge me.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#32. 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.
Richard Pryor
#33. Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
Mark Pryor
#34. I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
Paul Mooney
#35. I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he ... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
Richard Pryor
#36. I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
Richard Pryor
#37. As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
Tig Notaro
#38. The rarity of what you hold is more powerful than you can imagine. It is a gift for humanity and the most lethal curse to the vampires.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#39. What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
Richard Pryor
#40. You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
Hari Kondabolu
#41. I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst ... In other words, I had a life.
Richard Pryor
#42. Rob glanced back at the glint of the blade as Caleb spun it once more. 'So what - you want information?' he asked,looking back at him'You want to talk'?.
'If talking means I ask questions and you answer them'.
Rob exhaled sharply. 'Is that what the tickingclocks about?some kind of threat.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#43. I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
Terry Gross
#44. Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in ... as you ride through life.
Richard Pryor
#45. I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
Elayne Boosler
#46. There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
Richard Pryor
#47. Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn't already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?
Anthony Jeselnik
#48. I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are ... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.
Michael Pryor
#49. There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
Richard Pryor
#50. On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
David Dobkin
#51. Countless emotions could be masked by the sexual act, but a kiss, the most intimate and passionate of exchanges, concealed nothing.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#52. I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
Adam DeVine
#53. Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
Pauly Shore
#54. I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
Calvin Pryor
#55. But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Richard Pryor
#56. As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
Christopher Moore
#57. 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.
Richard Pryor
#58. 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.
Richard Pryor
#59. I used a lot of what we call the "Shred-mill." It's like a treadmill, but you're basically running up hill and it's getting faster as you go. It definitely helped at the combine because it teaches you drive phases, how to pump your arms and how to use different aspects of your body.
Calvin Pryor
#60. Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset
the comedians themselves.
Richard Pryor
#62. I don't do this relationship shit, Caitlin. But I see you because I want to see you; I'm with you because I want to be with you. That's the truth.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#63. The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!
Tracy Morgan
#64. When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.
Artie Lange
#65. When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like ... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.
Richard Pryor
#66. Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
Richard Pryor
#67. Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."
Richard Pryor
#68. That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
Richard Pryor
#69. I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.
Mark Pryor
#70. Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,
Debby Applegate
#71. I'm already inside your head. And your body's most definitely next.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#72. She exhaled curtly. 'I'm a serryn. That's all you see. I'm just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That's hardly the most appealing of traits.'
'Tell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn't look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#73. Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
Joe Rogan
#74. You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.
Richard Pryor
#75. I'm more than twisted. I'm the worst kind of vampire ... But you're the one who's craving me, so what does that make you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#77. It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
Richard Pryor
#78. We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#79. I'm just trying to eat healthy. That's my biggest thing right now. Staying away from fried foods, eating more greens and grilled food, just keeping my body right.
Calvin Pryor
#80. I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
Ron White
#81. There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor
#82. So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.
George Lopez
#83. I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor
#84. I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.
Marc Maron
#85. If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
Richard Pryor
#86. People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
Hannibal Buress
#87. It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
Richard Pryor
#88. I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Richard Pryor
#89. One bite, Caleb, that's all it will take.' 'Once more inside you could be all it takes,' he whispered in her ear, making her stomach flip. 'Right now, I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#90. 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.
Richard Pryor
#91. [Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.
Keegan-Michael Key
#92. There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
Alan King
#93. Strong isn't about not being afraid, Caitlin. It's about facing what you're scared of.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#94. I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
Marc Maron
#95. 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?
Richard Pryor
#96. He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
Richard Pryor
#97. There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
Richard Pryor
#98. Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance, and I've always looked up to Mike Vick, and I always will.
Terrelle Pryor
#99. 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?
Richard Pryor
#100. Unfortunately, Susan was not the only one who noticed Ricky's eyes on her; Patty was growing increasingly frustrated by his failure to respond to her overtures, or the reason
Brianne E. Pryor
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