Robin Williams Quotes
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
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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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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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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
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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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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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For a while you get mad, then you get over it.
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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?
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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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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
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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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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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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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If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing.
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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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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.