Robin Williams Comedy Quotations

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

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

The moments of comedy are there. But the whole idea of a vacation is the stripping away of stuff and then, by the end of the vacation, (at least) in my life, you do have these moments as a group, as a family having a great time, so mellow again. It takes a while to do that but that's what this movie is about.

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Without (the reality), it's just slamming into things. If you start with that physical comedy, then things surely but slowly fall apart. But you build on that reality and then you can go pretty outrageous - up to the Keaton-like gags.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

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