You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
Robin Williams[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!
Robin WilliamsKid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong.
Robin WilliamsIt'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.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
Robin WilliamsLife is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.
Robin WilliamsI've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.
Robin WilliamsAfter my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!
Robin WilliamsWith mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works.
Robin WilliamsHow 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.
Robin WilliamsIf women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin WilliamsI stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.
Robin WilliamsThe first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material
Robin WilliamsYou’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing
Robin WilliamsOn stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.
Robin WilliamsSeize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.
Robin WilliamsIn England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'
Robin WilliamsI started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
Robin WilliamsThey say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them
Robin WilliamsIn California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."
Robin WilliamsThe world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.
Robin WilliamsIf women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.
Robin Williams2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match.
Robin WilliamsWe're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.
Robin WilliamsActing is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Robin WilliamsYou look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.
Robin WilliamsDirecting requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.
Robin WilliamsPolitics 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.
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