Top 408 Quotes & Sayings by Robin Williams - Page 2

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.

I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

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'!'

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!