Top 100 Quotes About Robin Williams
#1. I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
Lucille Ball
#2. I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
Michael McKean
#3. We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
Carlos Alazraqui
#4. You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.
Frank Caliendo
#5. Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.
Barack Obama
#6. I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.
Amanda Crew
#7. Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.
Joan Rivers
#8. 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
#9. Thank you Robin Williams for showing the world that one man can make a difference in the lives of millions, while still fighting his own personal demons. You are missed, but never forgotten.
Steven Wolff
#10. I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.
Charles Keating
#11. When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.
Frank Caliendo
#12. I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
Chris Cooper
#13. Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg
#14. I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
Karen Gillan
#15. I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
Christine Baranski
#16. Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
Billy West
#17. When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
Joe Rogan
#18. How do I know that Kanye West married a Kardashian? How do I know that Robin Williams died?
Anonymous
#19. When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.
Stephen Root
#20. 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
#21. This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.
Hayley Williams
#22. Your legacy will be the world's inheritance, and the laughter you left us with will be the birthright of a new generation.
from a letter to Robin Williams
Michelle Franklin
#23. It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.
Chris Diamantopoulos
#24. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
Jake M. Johnson
#25. 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
#26. When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.
Robert Sean Leonard
#27. Everything you could imagine Robin Williams being, he was and more.
Roberto Aguire
#28. When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.
Gilbert Gottfried
#29. And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.
Shepard Smith
#30. Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
Paul Mooney
#31. 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
#32. If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
Irvin D. Yalom
#33. People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
Francis Ford Coppola
#34. 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
#35. Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.
Jessica Chastain
#36. As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
Phil Hartman
#37. 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
#38. With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
Gus Van Sant
#39. I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.
Bill Hader
#40. In theatres, you're kind of disconnected. Also, it's way too big for the likes of me. Unless you're Robin Williams or someone that can fill a stage with movement and energy, it just looks like a small man on a big stage.
Norm MacDonald
#41. I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.
Roberto Aguire
#42. Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."
Robin Williams
#43. If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams
#44. As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.
Robin Williams
#45. We Americans, we're a simple people ... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.
Robin Williams
#46. When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence
Robin Williams
#47. 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?".
Robin Williams
#48. I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.
Robin Williams
#49. Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night
Robin Williams
#50. 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.
Robin Williams
#52. I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
Robin Williams
#53. Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Robin Williams
#54. When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Robin Williams
#55. You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.'
Robin Williams
#56. 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.
Robin Williams
#58. To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
Robin Williams
#59. I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'
Robin Williams
#60. Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
Robin Williams
#61. When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like "What? There's no toilet?" Once you get used to high speed you ain't going back
Robin Williams
#63. 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
#64. We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.
Robin Williams
#65. Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin Williams
#66. Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams
#67. Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
Robin Williams
#68. And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going 'You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know'.
Robin Williams
#69. It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp
Robin Williams
#70. I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.
Robin Williams
#71. We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There's evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn't take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.
Robin Williams
#72. 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.
Robin Williams
#73. Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
Robin Williams
#74. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
Robin Williams
#75. There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.
Robin Williams
#76. I love running cross-country ... You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.
Robin Williams
#77. If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.
Robin Williams
#78. I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was ... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Robin Williams
#79. And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!
Robin Williams
#80. Many newspapers always talk about how many people have died, but they never say how many people have lived.
Robin McLaurin Williams
#81. 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.
Robin Williams
#82. It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.
Robin Williams
#83. 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?
Robin Williams
#84. Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.
Robin Williams
#85. Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
Robin Williams
#86. 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.
Robin Williams
#87. Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.
Robin Williams
#88. Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.
Robin Williams
#89. Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.
Robin Williams
#90. 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.
Robin Williams
#91. If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
Robin Williams
#92. Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
Robin Williams
#93. You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.
Robin Williams
#94. You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
Robin Williams
#95. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
Robin Williams
#96. I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
Robin Williams
#97. Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
Robin Williams
#98. What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.
Robin Williams
#99. If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.
Robin Williams
#100. It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.
Robin Williams
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