Robin Williams Quotes | Robin Williams, in full Robin McLaurin Williams, (born July 21, 1951, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. He was a famous American comedian and actor known for his manic stand-up.
He won an Academy Award for his role in Good Will Hunting (1997).
His father, Robert, was an executive for the Ford Motor Company, and his mother was a former fashion model.
Williams studied political science at Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna College), where he began taking courses in improvisation.
He then attended the College of Marin to study acting but later received a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York City.
His first major role came with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), in which he portrayed the irreverent military disc jockey Adrian Cronauer. The role earned Williams his first Academy Award nomination.
On August 11, 2014, Williams committed suicide by hanging at his home. Report noted that Williams had been suffering from depression and anxiety.
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“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
– Robin Williams
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is end up with people that make you feel all alone.”
– Robin Williams
“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
– Robin Williams
“People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.”
– Robin Williams
“Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.”
– Robin Williams
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
– Robin Williams
“Carpe per diem – seize the check.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
– Robin Williams
“The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.”
– Robin Williams
“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
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“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… a large Arctic region covered with ice.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“A lot of vets like ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ – I get great letters from guys.”
– Robin Williams
“Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.”
– Robin Williams
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“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.”
– Robin Williams
“You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“There are three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.”
– Robin Williams
“If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing.”
– Robin Williams
“Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
– Robin Williams
“There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”
– Robin Williams
“Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”
– Robin Williams
“The only weapon we have is the comedy.”
– Robin Williams
“I love kids, but they are a tough audience.”
– Robin Williams
“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was.’ But if you continue the way it was there will be no ‘is.’”
– Robin Williams
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”
– Patch Adams
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“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”
– Robin Williams
“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”
– Robin Williams
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
– Robin Williams
“There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.”
– Robin Williams
“I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“You don’t know about real loss because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself.”
– Robin Williams
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
– Robin Williams
“Look at the walls of Pompeii. That’s what got the internet started.”
– Robin Williams
“When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?”
– Robin Williams
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“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?'”
– Robin Williams
“Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”
– Robin Williams
“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.”
– Robin Williams
“If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”
– Robin Williams
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
– Robin Williams
“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”
– Robin Williams
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
– Robin Williams
“Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.”
– Robin Williams
“The things we fear the most have already happened to us.”
– Robin Williams
“I do believe in love; it’s wonderful—especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”
– Robin Williams
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