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Richard Pryor

"I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it."

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"I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it."

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"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story."

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"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

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"With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor."

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"My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas."

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"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."

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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

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"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."

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"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies."

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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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"A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo."
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"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
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"The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?"
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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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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
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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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"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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