Robin Williams Quotes

“I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.”

“In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.”

“I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.”

“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.”

“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”

“One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.”

“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!”

“What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.”

“I feel like I'm a big human snot.”

“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”

“Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something”

“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”

“Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.”

“Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.”

“Carpe per diem - seize the check.”

“What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?”

“We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.”

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

“Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.”

“I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.”

“I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.”

“Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”

“Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.”

“Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.”

“If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.”