Top 280 Robin Williams Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.”

— Robin Williams

102. “When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence.”

— Robin Williams

103. “Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!”

— Robin Williams

104. “Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.”

— Robin Williams

105. “It’s a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you – when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.”

— Robin Williams

106. “Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”

— Robin Williams

107. “Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”

— Robin Williams

108. “There are times when life’s just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, “Well, what are you really like?””

— Robin Williams

109. “Carpe per diem – seize the check.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

112. “If these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this... I was here! I existed! I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world... to take my picture.”

— Robin Williams

113. “Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.”

— Robin Williams

114. “When I was growing up they used to say, “Robin, drugs can kill you.” Now that I’m 58 my doctor’s telling me, “Robin, you need drugs to live.” I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer...”

— Robin Williams

115. “Shakespeare said, “Kill all the lawyers.” There were no agents then.”

— Robin Williams

116. “You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.”

— Robin Williams

117. “Death is nature’s way of saying, ’your table is ready.”

— Robin Williams

118. “A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.”

— Robin Williams

119. “Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.”

— Robin Williams

120. “We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.”

— Robin Williams

121. “Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.”

— Robin Williams

122. “You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don’t become stupid!”

— Robin Williams

123. “I don’t know how much value I have in this universe, but I do know that I’ve made a few people happier than they would have been without me, and as long as I know that, I’m as rich as I ever need to be.”

— Robin Williams

124. “Women are wonderful. They’re amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They’re addicting in the most amazing sense.”

— Robin Williams

125. “Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.”

— Robin Williams

126. “We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.”

— Robin Williams

127. “Even mistakes can be wonderful.”

— Robin Williams

128. “You’d think all of these “atypical” somethings would add up to a typical something.”

— Robin Williams

129. “The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, ‘what’s that noise?’”

— Robin Williams

130. “Carpe Diem! Make your lives extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

131. “The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.”

— Robin Williams

132. “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

133. “We’re not laughing at you – we’re laughing near you.”

— Robin Williams

134. “Compassionate conservative, that’s like having a gun rack on a Volvo.”

— Robin Williams

135. “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

136. “Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.”

— Robin Williams

137. “Gentlemen, haven’t we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.”

— Robin Williams

138. “Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don’t want to go to school anymore.”

— Robin Williams

139. “There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, ‘People – they’r e kinda like flowers, and it’s been a privilege walking in your garden.’ My love goes with you.”

— Robin Williams

140. “Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn’t too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”

— Robin Williams

141. “Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

143. “Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.”

— Robin Williams

144. “With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.”

— Robin Williams

145. “If heaven exists, to know that there’s laughs, that would be a great thing...”

— Robin Williams

146. “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

147. “I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.”

— Robin Williams

148. “Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that’s going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.”

— Robin Williams

149. “See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain’t no time to be sane.”

— Robin Williams

150. “If I ever asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.”

— Robin Williams