Robin Williams Quotes
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
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Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.
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The world is open for play, everything and everybody is mockable in a wonderful way.
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Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
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I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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What’s wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor? Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
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The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
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Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
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Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
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The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.