Richard Pryor

"I went to the library and asked the librarian, 'Do you have any books about paranoia?' She whispered, 'They're right behind you.'"

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

"You gotta be careful when you're getting mad, just like you gotta be careful when you're doing anything."

"There's a time when you have to explain to your understanding why you're allowing certain things to happen to you."

"I'm not a real movie star. Movie stars have people."

"Humor is almost a spiritual thing in my family."

"The men in my family are very attracted to women. And the women in my family are attracted to men."

"I think about my death every single day and it really makes me appreciate my life."

"You can understand comedy, but you can't do comedy unless you have a certain rhythm in your brain."

"Booty and the beast."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by people I love."

"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose."

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."

"I realized that comedians of the sixties were doing something different than what I was doing."

"Miracles is the only word for it."

"I want to be remembered as someone who used his God-given talents to help lift people up."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either love or fear."

"The biggest thing I've learned is to not take it so seriously."

"You know that thing in your chest that makes your heart beat? That's called the heart."

"I'm not myself, I'm someone else."

"If you're not failing, you're not pushing yourself hard enough."

"Some people say I'm not intelligent because I don't have a degree."

"When you're a little kid and you see the white lady, you don't think anything of it."

"I've been on my toes for years."

"The thing about comedy is that it's never been a job for me."

"All the time I'm on stage, I'm thinking about the next thing I'm gonna do."

"I don't hurt myself for laughs. That would be stupid."

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."