Robin Williams Quotes

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

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

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

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

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

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

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

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

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

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

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

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

Be prepared for luck.

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

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

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?

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.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

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.

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

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.

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.

Even mistakes can be wonderful.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

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.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

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

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

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

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

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

When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like "What? There's no toilet?" Once you get used to high speed you ain't going back

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

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.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.