A Quote by Charley Pride

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

Charley Pride

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Charley Pride
American - Musician
Born: March 18, 1938

I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.

Rikishi

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

Kinky Friedman

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Henry Louis Gates

Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p and r.

Kevin Young

These guys Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac claim they're the Kings of Comedy. They may be funny, but they ain't no kings. That title is reserved for Rudy Ray Moore and Redd Foxx.

Rudy Ray Moore

An old-codger comedy - that's what I want to do.

Wes Studi

When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.

Eric Andre

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

Will Self

Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.

Franklin Graham

Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?

Frank Beddor

Whenever Jamie Foxx was on 'In Living Color' and then you saw him sing, it didn't take away from either of those things.

Riff Raff

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

Kaka

If I wasn't from Philly, I couldn't promise you that I would have the same drive and the same ambition because, as a little kid, I always saw myself as making it out, and I would escape with television.

Nafessa Williams

I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.

Marianne Williamson

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

S. E. Hinton

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