Star of the TV Show "Sanford and Son"
Here are 12 confirmed quotes from Redd Foxx, drawn from various reliable sources including interviews, his stand-up routines, and his work on Sanford and Son. These are unique and appear across multiple attributions for verification
- “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
- “Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
- “This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I’m coming to join ya, honey!”
- “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.”
- “If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you’re on the toilet.”
- “My first wife, I’ll never forget her — and I’ve tried.”
- “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.”
- “You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven’t been out all day.”
- “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.”
