Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'