I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
[as a TV preacher] People are always asking me, "Reverend; if you need money so bad, why don't you sell one of your houses, or cars or get rid of some of that jewelry?" And I always reply, "Are you crazy!" [looks at the phone bank]
When I was a kid, I always said I'd be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it! Sometimes I just sit home and look out the window and say, "Daaaaaammmm!"
How much money have we raised so far? None! OK, this is a message for all you white people out there. Part of the money we raise tonight will go to the Back to Africa movement and...[every phone rings]
I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life.
The idea of "laughing to keep from crying" was central to his work and has been diligently avoided by those who claim to owe so much to him.
As he revealed in his last performance films, Pryor understood the prison he had built for himself and the shallow definitions that smothered his audience's understanding of the humanity behind his work.
But, as they say, once the barn door has been opened, you cannot get all of the animals to return by whistling. So we need to understand the terrible mistakes this man of comic genius made and never settle for a standard that is less than what he did at his very best, which was as good as it has ever gotten. Stanley Crouch
I wish that every new and young comedian would understand what Richard was about and not confuse his genius with his language usage. Bill Cosby.
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