Robin Williams Quotations

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

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

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

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

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

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

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

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.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

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

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

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

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

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.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

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.

I 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.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

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.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

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

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.

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

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

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.

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

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

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

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'!"

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

My God. We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?

There are so many beautiful parts of the world . . . Thailand, Italy, the south of France. There are places in Spain that are astonishing. But here . . . 25 miles and you go up on Mount Tam to see the fog come in; 25 miles the other direction and you're somewhere else that takes your breath away. There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

I believe that once we are all gone, Keith Richards will still be here...with 5 cockroaches saying 'you know I smoked your uncle, did you know that?'

What is a stealth bomber? It's a bomber that doesn't show up on radar, and you can't see it. Then we don't need one.

We men are driven to meet Miss Right . . . or at least Miss Right Now.

He went from looking like a Greek god to becoming Buddha: quiet, contained, but so powerful, ... And he's such a fighter. I thought, 'He's going to the hospital, he'll be OK, he'll come out.'

We've been through quite a few. We're very aware and cautious with hurricanes,

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.

Marijuana enhances many things, colors, flavors, sensations, but you are certainly not f**king empowered. When you're stoned, you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance-enhancing drug is if there's a big f**king Hershey bar at the end of the run. Then you'll be like a Swiss ski jumper going, "I'm there!

I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

It felt wonderful doing it. But that's rather like urinating in brown velvet pants. It can feel wonderful, but no one will watch.

We're all worms, but I do believe I'm a glowworm.