Robin Williams Quotes

“But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.”

“When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?”

“In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.”

“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”

“There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.”

“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”

“It's cheaper to keep her.”

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'”

“If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.”

“Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.”

“The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.”

“Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.”

“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.”

“There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you.”

“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”

“My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!”

“We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.”

“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”

“When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”

“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them”

“When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.”

“You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.”

“There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"”

“I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?”