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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
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I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
