Robin Williams Quotes

“A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.”

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

“Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.”

“The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.”

“Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums”

“We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.”

“We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you”

“The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.”

“After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!”

“You have to break in half to love somebody.”

“If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”

“I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.”

“My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.”

“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.”

“We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.”

“Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.”

“The idea of having a steady job is appealing.”

“Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.”

“Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.”

“The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.”

“For a while you get mad, then you get over it.”

“I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

“The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!”

“If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.”