Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow

Eyes sparkling with blue open and stare a scalded soul at me.

What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

My life is my work. My work is my life

[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.

Style is important, but content comes first.

To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.