Top 280 Robin Williams Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.”

— Robin Williams

52. “My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.”

— Robin Williams

53. “Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.”

— Robin Williams

54. “Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”

— Robin Williams

55. “What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven’t seen before.”

— Robin Williams

56. “If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.”

— Robin Williams

57. “When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”

— Robin Williams

58. “Be prepared for luck.”

— Robin Williams

59. “When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?”

— Robin Williams

60. “As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

— Robin Williams

61. “You have to break in half to love somebody.”

— Robin Williams

62. “You don’t need cocaine! There’s another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it’s called marathon running!”

— Robin Williams

63. “All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

65. “It’s hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut.”

— Robin Williams

66. “I’m an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It’s like same religion, half the guilt.”

— Robin Williams

67. “I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”

— Robin Williams

68. “Reality: What a concept!”

— Robin Williams

69. “Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”

— Robin Williams

70. “No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

72. “Carpe Diem, everyday!!!”

— Robin Williams

73. “If you don’t keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you’re the “center square to block.””

— Robin Williams

74. “You can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing.”

— Robin Williams

75. “The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that’s what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they’re not. Ah, that’s the good stuff!”

— Robin Williams

76. “Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!”

— Robin Williams

77. “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”

— Robin Williams

78. “People say that I’m a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that’s really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I’m an air breather, I’ve gotten used to that over the years.”

— Robin Williams

79. “All the new people you meet, it’s pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.”

— Robin Williams

80. “My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, “If you want to do that, fine.” When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, “Fine, but study welding just in case.””

— Robin Williams

81. “Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea – freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.”

— Robin Williams

82. “We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers.”

— Robin Williams

83. “I’m looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now.”

— Robin Williams

84. “If you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there.”

— Robin Williams

85. “Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums.”

— Robin Williams

86. “In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say ‘Stop, or I’ll say stop again.’”

— Robin Williams

87. “I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.”

— Robin Williams

88. “All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

90. “To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.”

— Robin Williams

91. “I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, ‘Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?’ And I said, ‘Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?’”

— Robin Williams

92. “They’re talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision – you either go all the way or forget it.”

— Robin Williams

93. “In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.”

— Robin Williams

94. “You’re going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian.”

— Robin Williams

95. “People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.”

— Robin Williams

96. “Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

98. “I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

100. “Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.”

— Robin Williams