Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Redd Foxx

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Redd Foxx.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub acts during the civil rights movement. Known as the "King of the Party Records", he performed on more than 50 records in his lifetime. He portrayed Fred G. Sanford on the television show Sanford and Son and starred in The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family. His film projects included All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Norman... Is That You? (1976) and Harlem Nights (1989).

American - Actor | December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991

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The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

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Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

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This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

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I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

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Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

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I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

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Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

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I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

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What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

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I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

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A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.

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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

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I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

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If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

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The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

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Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.

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Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

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