Robin Williams Quotes

“I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.”

“Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.”

“Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.”

“We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!”

“I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.”

“We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.”

“In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.”

“You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!”

“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”

“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”

“Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother”

“I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.”

“Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.”

“Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.”

“Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.”

“When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.”

“Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.”

“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”

“Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.”

“They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.”

“There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.”

“I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.”

“Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?”

“His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.”

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happybecause they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthlessand they don't want anyone else to feel like that.”