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.

In this reflection, Pryor frames his multiple sclerosis as both a hard limit and a spiritual test. He accepts the illness as a “hand” dealt by God—language that suggests fate and humility—while also insisting on the concrete, professional loss it imposed: his film career halted abruptly. The quote holds two emotions in tension: gratitude for survival amid a turbulent life and grief for the sudden disappearance of work that gave him purpose and public connection. Its power lies in the plainspoken contrast between religious resignation (“be thankful”) and the blunt finality of disability (“stop dead”).