Robin Williams Quotes

American - Comedian July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' - Robin Williams

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

Nature, Spring, Saying, Party, Way

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Inspirational, Change, People, Words

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

Life, Alone, People, Think, You, Feel

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. - Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Funny, Women, World, Days, Just, Intense

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. - Robin Williams

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Fight, Ugly, Lose, Person, Never, Got

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. - Robin Williams

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Funny, Sorry, You, Right, Agree, Were

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? - Robin Williams

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Funny, Nothing, Why, Call, Rush, Hour

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Imagination, You, Lose, Madness, Spark

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. - Robin Williams

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Comedy, Way, Personal, Trauma, Deal

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Truth, You, Truth Is, Lost, Sometimes

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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.

Yourself, Me, Anger, You, Comedy, See

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. - Robin Williams

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

You, Wrong, Everything, Left, Right

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.

Love, Funny, Mother, Me, You, Love Me

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Heart, Money, Divorce, Your, Joke, Out

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

Cousins, Years, Cloning, Had, South

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.

Man, Character, You, Humanity, Want, Fan

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.

Work, School, Great, Me, You, Acting

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. - Robin Williams

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Politics, People, White, Dead, House

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Great, Party, Canada, Like, Over, Really

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Tired, Me, You, Baseball, Saying, Poor

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

Me, People, Evil, Bad, Someone, Famous

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

Sad, Style, Bad, I Can, Dancing, Swing

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

Home, Time, Legend, Playing, First, Were

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

Great, Men, Young, Talented, Both, Knew

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Funny, Phone, Need, Why, Phone Number

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

People, Reality, Who, Just, Cope, Crutch

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