Robin Williams Quotes

“You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.”

“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”

“Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!”

“It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.”

“Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.”

“My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.”

“That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.”

“Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air.”

“My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.”

“I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.”

“Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!”

“I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.”

“Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.”

“Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.”

“There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.”

“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.”

“If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.”

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

“What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?”

“If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”

“You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.'”

“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

“The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!”

“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”

“She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other”