Robin Williams Quotes
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
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All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.
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I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
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I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
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You are a big country. You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.
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Age makes you more confident. When you realize that it’s time now to just do things. When there’s not the pressure to perform on some level of expectations, there’s more to just explore.
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I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
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Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
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There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.
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What’s my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn’t there someone more qualified?
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There are three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.
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The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
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There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.