Robin Williams Quotes
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
