"After I quit drinking, I realized I..." - Quote by Robin Williams
After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.
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“I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.”
“I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.”
“The only weapon we have is comedy.”
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“The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.”
“I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.”
“When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.”