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Richard Pryor

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

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"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."

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"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."

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"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."

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"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."

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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."

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"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
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"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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"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."
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"Friends take up time, and I didn't have time."
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"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
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"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
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"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."
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"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
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"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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