Top 30 Quotes About Comedy Robin Williams
#1. I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
#2. 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.
Robin Williams
#3. I put a hand between my legs. Yup, everything was still there; then I goosed Peter.
He laughed. "Hey, now ... "
"I was just checking to make sure all the important parts were still attached."
"Jeez, D ...
Adrienne Wilder
#4. I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!
Sophia Bush
#5. There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
Rudolf Ladenburg
#6. I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
Jerry Lewis
#7. I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
Al Gore
#8. Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.
Robin Williams
#9. You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
Robin Williams
#12. I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.
Peter Sarsgaard
#13. It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
Robin Williams
#14. Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.
Robin Williams
#15. I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'
Robin Williams
#16. 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.
Robin Williams
#17. Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
John C. Maxwell
#18. Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Robin Williams
#19. In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
Robin Williams
#20. I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.
Josh Duhamel
#22. I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.
Bruce McCulloch
#23. Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.
Ted Alexandro
#25. That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
William Shakespeare
#26. For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy ... The beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever and the glow will be so bright, it'll warm your heart, it'll make your eyes glisten, and you'll think to yourselves, Robin Williams, what a concept.
Billy Crystal
#27. They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.
Vaslav Nijinsky
#28. I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the Dallas Comedy Corner where I honed my skills by watching guys like Garry Shandling, Robin Williams, Jay Lena and more.
Bill Engvall
#29. What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
Joel Salatin
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