Top 408 Quotes & Sayings by Robin Williams
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Last updated on September 9, 2024.
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
Carpe per diem - seize the check.
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.
What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Reality: What a concept!
When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
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