Robin Williams Quotes:
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.
Robin Williams
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?’
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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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.
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Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
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Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
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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.
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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.
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If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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I think it’s great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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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.
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I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers’ chops.
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Carpe per diem – seize the check.
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn’t necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
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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’!’
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
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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.
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Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’
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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.
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I don’t do well with snakes and I can’t dance.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins.
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What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.
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I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.
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Reality: What a concept!
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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.
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I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.
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You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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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.
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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.
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!
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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.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
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.
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When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, ‘Can I use a lifeline?’
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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.
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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.
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I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Look at the walls of Pompeii. That’s what got the internet started.
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Who is Robin Williams?
Robin McLaurin Williams was an actor and comedian from the United States. He is frequently recognized as one of the best comedians of all time for his improvisational skills and the huge variety of characters he developed on the spur of the moment and played on film, in tragedies and comedies alike.