Top 408 Quotes & Sayings by Robin Williams - Page 6

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

It's cheaper to keep her.

What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

A place where we all go can't be bad.

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."

I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.

It's the same sex all the time.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'

I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?