Robin Williams Quotes

“You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”

— Robin Williams

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

— Robin Williams

“I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”

— Robin Williams

“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”

— Robin Williams

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.

— Robin Williams

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.

— Robin Williams

“I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.”

— Robin Williams

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'

— Robin Williams

“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.”

— Robin Williams

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

— Robin Williams

“If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.”

— Robin Williams

“Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.”

— Robin Williams

“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”

— Robin Williams

“There's 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.”

— Robin Williams

“You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.”

— Robin Williams

“Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.”

— Robin Williams

“Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone.”

— Robin Williams

“Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.”

— Robin Williams

“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”

— Robin Williams

“Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.”

— Robin Williams

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

— Robin Williams

“We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.”

— Robin Williams

“We're dealing with fundamentalists ... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.”

— Robin Williams

“On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.”

— Robin Williams

You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.

— Robin Williams

“Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.”

— Robin Williams

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

— Robin Williams

I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open.

— Robin Williams

“You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.”

— Robin Williams

“If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go What happens if you take two?”

— Robin Williams

I had my back waxed once by two women ... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

— Robin Williams

“I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.”

— Robin Williams

“For a while you get mad, then you get over it.”

— Robin Williams

“Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."”

— Robin Williams

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

— Robin Williams

“What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees”

— Robin Williams

“I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.”

— Robin Williams

“The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.”

— Robin Williams

“And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going 'You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know'.”

— Robin Williams

“It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.”

— Robin Williams

“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”

— Robin Williams

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

— Robin Williams

“His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.”

— Robin Williams

“You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.”

— Robin Williams

“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them”

— Robin Williams

“It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.”

— Robin Williams

I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.

— Robin Williams

Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense.

— Robin Williams

When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

— Robin Williams

“I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.”

— Robin Williams