Robin Williams Quotes & Sayings

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it. — Robin Williams

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on. — Robin Williams

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

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star steaks through the darkness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. — Robin Williams

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny. — Robin Williams

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

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

I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. — Robin Williams

Be prepared for luck. — Robin Williams

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.' — Robin Williams

There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People
they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you. — Robin Williams

You can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

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

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me. — Robin Williams

You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act. — Robin Williams

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

Reality what a concept ! — Robin Williams

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. — Robin Williams

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people ... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. — Robin Williams

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

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

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous. — Robin Williams

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

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

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift. — Robin Williams

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams

Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial. — Robin Williams

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing. — 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? — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

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

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species. — Robin Williams

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves. — Robin Williams

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

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great! — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. — Robin Williams

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

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years. — Robin Williams

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

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons. — Robin Williams

Why do they call it rush hour if no one moves? — Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven. — Robin Williams

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore. — Robin Williams

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. — Robin Williams

In America they really do mythologise people when they die. — Robin Williams

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material. — Robin Williams

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy. — Robin Williams

Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that. — Robin Williams

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

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. — Robin Williams

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material — Robin Williams

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. — Robin Williams

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em! — Robin Williams

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

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.' — Robin Williams

We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds. — Robin Williams

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

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence — Robin Williams

Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will. — Robin Williams

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

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!' — Robin Williams

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

My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it. — Robin Williams

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. — Robin Williams

Even mistakes can be wonderful — Robin Williams

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother — Robin Williams

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus. — Robin Williams

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! — Robin Williams

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. — Robin Williams

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. — Robin Williams

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke. — Robin Williams

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.' — 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. — Robin Williams

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? — Robin Williams

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems. — Robin Williams

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?" — Robin Williams

Carpe Diem, everyday!!! — Robin Williams

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. — Robin Williams

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices. — Robin Williams

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

And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up! — Robin Williams

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

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. — Robin Williams

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

I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! — Robin Williams

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was ... a large Arctic region covered with ice. — Robin Williams