Richard Pryor
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.Collection: Profound
When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!Collection: Running
You don't get to be old bein' no fool.Collection: Fool
I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.Collection: Ideas
Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.Collection: Epidemics
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.Collection: Color
Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?Collection: Lying
Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.Collection: Woods
If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.Collection: Heart
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.Collection: Home
You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.Collection: White
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.Collection: Two
He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.Collection: Always Trying
Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.Collection: Comedian
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!Collection: Want
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.Collection: Dying
I wanna grow up and be a critic.Collection: Growing Up
In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.Collection: Heart
If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.Collection: Ask Me
If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.Collection: Money
I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!Collection: Book
My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.Collection: Mean
I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.Collection: Morning
I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.Collection: White
That's insanity. We must be good all the time.Collection: Insanity
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.Collection: Jumping
To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.Collection: Doctors
When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."Collection: Voice
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.Collection: Animal
I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.Collection: Fighter
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.Collection: Real
What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?Collection: Hangover
Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.Collection: Bullshit
Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.Collection: Running
You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.Collection: Sex
I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.Collection: America
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.Collection: Fire
You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.Collection: Dues
Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."Collection: Intelligent
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.Collection: Home
There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.Collection: Two