Robin Williams Quotes & Sayings

#1. Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

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#2. I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

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#3. 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.

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#4. My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

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#5. 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.

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#6. It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

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#7. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me.

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#8. Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.

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#9. We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

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

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

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#12. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

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#13. 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!

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#14. Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

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#15. Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

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#16. You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

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#17. I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

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#18. You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

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#19. Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

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#20. Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

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#21. Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go ... "All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

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#22. 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.

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#23. You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.

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#24. For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

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#25. You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

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

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#27. Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

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#28. People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

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#29. I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

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

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#31. I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

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#32. Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true.

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#33. The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

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#34. 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.

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#35. It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

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#36. I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

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#37. I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

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#38. We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.

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

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#40. It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

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

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#42. [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

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#43. Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

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#44. His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

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#45. I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

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#46. All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

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#47. You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

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#48. Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not ... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

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#49. 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.

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#50. I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

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#51. My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist

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#52. Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

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#53. You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something

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

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#55. It's cheaper to keep her.

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#56. Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

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#57. No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

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#58. Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense.

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#59. Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

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

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#61. How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

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#62. With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

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#63. That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved

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#64. I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

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#65. Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

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#66. Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

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#67. My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

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#68. If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers

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#69. I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

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#70. I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

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#71. The only weapon we have is comedy.

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#72. If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

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#73. Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

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#74. 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.

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#75. I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

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#76. Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?

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#77. On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

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#78. It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut

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#79. 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.

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#80. When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

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

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#82. A place where we all go can't be bad.

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#83. If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

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#84. The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

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#85. 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.

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

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#87. We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

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#88. Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

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#89. Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'

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#90. I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

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#91. Comedy is acting out optimism

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#92. There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

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#93. With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

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