Robin Williams Giving Quotations

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

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

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

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees

I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.