Robin Williams Stand Up Quotes & Sayings

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job. — Robin Williams

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. — Robin Williams

She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss — Rick Riordan

That is the greatest danger in theology and deities - that they create the impression that goodness cannot be created or maintained by mere humans without divine help. This allows all measure of excuses ... and strange contortions to explain perfectly logical occurrences ... . — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. — Joe Rogan

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time. — Robin Williams

If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift. — Oli Anderson

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. — Robin Williams

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. — Robin Williams

'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made. — Horatio Sanz

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. — Marcus Aurelius

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. — Andrew Jackson

You're not caught in a dilemma?" he asked. I looked at my feet. I didn't know what a dilemma was, but it didn't look like I was caught in anything, so I shook my head no. — Lenore Look

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people. — Maisie Williams

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store. — Arvind Ethan David

The relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine. — Linda Ronstadt

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. — Robin Williams