Robin Williams Quotes

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

Robin Williams

• Dance
• Well
• Do Not
• Snakes

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• It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Like
  • Well
  • Easily

• I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Brother
  • Actor
  • Well

• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Think
  • Dance
  • Audience

• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dance

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Grateful
  • Experiences
  • Well

• When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Fun
  • Parents

• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dance

• I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • School
  • Day

• Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

  

  Vash Young
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Living
  • Well
  • Beat

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Same
  • Lake

• We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Present
  • Dance
  • Red

• I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Learning
  • Moving
  • Dance

• Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • People
  • Believe
  • Dance

• Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Women
  • America
  • Success

• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • Happy
  • Words

• Somehow the very event that caused them so much pain had also become their sole source of meaning. They felt fully alive only when they were revisiting their traumatic past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Pain
  • Sole Source
  • Traumatic Past

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

  

  Robin Williams
  • Dance
  • Well
  • Do Not