Robin Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
-
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
-
From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
-
I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.
-
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
-
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
-
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
-
I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
-
I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
-
When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
-
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
-
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
-
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
-
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
-
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
-
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
-
I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
-
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
-
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
-
Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
-
I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
-
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
-
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
