Little Richard

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1932 age 0

   Born

2. 1956 age 24

   CreditThe Girl Can't Help It

3. 1986 age 54

   CreditDown and Out in Beverly Hills

4. 1993 age 61

   CreditLast Action Hero

5. 1996 age 64

   CreditThe Late Shift

6. 1999 age 67

   CreditMystery, Alaska

7. 2003 age 71

   CreditPiano Blues

8. 2020 age 87

   Died

• FDFats Domino2 titles
• CDCharles Dance1 title
• KBKathy Bates1 title
• RHRichard A. Harris1 title
• RCRussell Crowe1 title
• STSven-Ole Thorsen1 title
• DDDanny DeVito1 title
• ASArnold Schwarzenegger1 title
• IMIan McKellen1 title
• ZPZak Penn1 title

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  Photo:Anna BlekerPublic domain

• I call my music the healing music … It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The average person, when they see a black man, they would say "Man, he got soul cos' his color." But I disagree with that. I think that God would be a very selfish God if He gave all the soul to one race. He lets his rain fall on the red flowers, the green flowers, the blue flowers; the good, the bad, no races, so He lets His blessings fall on all races. So I think that there are types of souls, like there are different types of cars. But they're all cars. You know, I think that, when a white guy sing[s], if he have soul, that don't mean that he had to copy no negro to get it. I believe if he feels, when one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Beatles are just a phenomenon; everything that the people say they are, they are. They're great. ... Their music is just melodious.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Well, you know I used to play piano for the church. You know that spiritual, 'Give Me that Old Time Religion', most churches just say, [sings] "Give me that old time religion" but I did, [sings] "Give me that old time, talkin' 'bout religion," you know I put that little thing in it you know, I always did have that thing but I didn't know what to do with the thing I had. So the style has always been with me... I always had my little thing I wanted to let the world hear, you know.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

  Little Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0