Robin Williams Quotes

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

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Reality: What a concept!

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

We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.

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.

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

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

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

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.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

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

Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'

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

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

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

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something

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

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.

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

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

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

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

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

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

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

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'!"