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  • I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  • I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

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

  • If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.

    "Fictional character: Jack Brown". "The Toy", www.imdb.com. 1982.
  • 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."

    "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip", www.imdb.com. 1982.
  • All humor is rooted in pain.

  • 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.

  • There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

  • When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

  • 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?

  • 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 expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

    "Song: "Religion"". Comedy album "Craps (After Hours)", 1971.
  • What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

  • My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

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

  • 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?

  • I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

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