Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryorwas an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and actor. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession" and Bob Newhart heralded Pryor as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 December 1940
CityPeoria, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Freebase? What's free about it?
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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.
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.
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
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.
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
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.
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?
There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.