"I was only a leading man for..." - Quote by Robin Williams
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
More by Robin Williams
“There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"”
“You’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”
“The only weapon we have is comedy.”
More on Acting
“So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.”
“Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?”
“It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting”
More on Career
“I have spent my career as a prosecutor. I've only had one client in my entire life, and that has been the people.”
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”