Robin Williams Quotes
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
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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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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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Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
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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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You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.
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For a while you get mad, then you get over it.
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Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end none of us have very long on this earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky.
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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.
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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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Even mistakes can be wonderful.
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When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
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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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I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
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If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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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.