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Richard Pryor
December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

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.

    Topics: Show Business

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.

   

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

   

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

   

I believe in divine forces and energies.

   

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

   

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

   

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!

   

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

   

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 was an only child.

   

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

   

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

   

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