Robin Williams Quotes
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What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
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The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
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I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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Even mistakes can be wonderful.
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
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I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?
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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
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If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing.
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For a while you get mad, then you get over it.
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.