Robin Williams Quotes

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

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'!"

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

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.

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

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

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

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense.

With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something

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.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

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.

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

Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

Cricket is baseball on Valium.

Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

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

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

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.