Robin Williams Quotes

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.

Robin Williams

• Comedy
• Anger
• Starts
• Sculpt
• Spew

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• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Die

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Policy
  • Finding

• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Player

• The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • She

• There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Great
  • Question

• It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • True

• I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Home

• I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Comedy

• I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Family
  • Father
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Comedy
  • Anger
  • Starts