Richard Pryor — "I'm not a nihilist. I'm just a person who doesn't believe in anything."

"I used to be a drunk. But then I realized I was just wasting my time. I could be doing something else, like getting high."

"I thought Richard, it's finally caught up with you. I thought I had one of them and I was going to die...my right eye is blind. You could hit me on this side and I wouldn't see it coming."

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

"I'm not a megalomaniac. I just want to rule the world."

"The first time I saw a white woman naked was in Playboy magazine. I thought she was dead. 'Cause I'd never seen a white woman with her eyes closed before."