Robin Williams Quotes

Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

Reality: What a concept!

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

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.

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

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

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

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!'

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.

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

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

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.

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

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

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

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

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

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.

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

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

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

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

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

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

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

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

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

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs