Top 280 Robin Williams Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.”

— Robin Williams

152. “My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.”

— Robin Williams

153. “I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”

— Robin Williams

154. “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”

— Robin Williams

155. “You’re best when you’re not in charge. The ego locks the muse.”

— Robin Williams

156. “Three wishes – no substitutes, exchanges or refunds.”

— Robin Williams

157. “The only weapon we have is comedy.”

— Robin Williams

158. “Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”

— Robin Williams

159. “I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.”

— Robin Williams

160. “You have this idea that you’d better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.”

— Robin Williams

161. “If we were interested in making money, we wouldn’t have become teachers.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

163. “We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins.”

— Robin Williams

164. “Dreams don’t deal in time. Time doesn’t count.”

— Robin Williams

165. “Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.”

— Robin Williams

166. “When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

168. “Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.”

— Robin Williams

169. “You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, ‘OK, you can do more.’ Maybe that’s what keeps you going.”

— Robin Williams

170. “In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I’m doing in that quiet time is just observing.”

— Robin Williams

171. “A place where we all go can’t be bad.”

— Robin Williams

172. “I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.”

— Robin Williams

173. “I love kids, but they are a tough audience.”

— Robin Williams

174. “In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.”

— Robin Williams

175. “If you’re going to do a movie about the Village, it’s pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.”

— Robin Williams

176. “I don’t practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.”

— Robin Williams

177. “Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you’re licensed to do that. It’s an understood relationship. You walk on stage – it’s your job.”

— Robin Williams

178. “Explore an idea until you’ve exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.”

— Robin Williams

179. “If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”

— Robin Williams

180. “Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

182. “Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn’t matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true.”

— Robin Williams

183. “Look at the walls of Pompeii. That’s what got the internet started.”

— Robin Williams

184. “Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money,’ but they changed it to ‘alimony.’ It’s ripping your heart out through your wallet.”

— Robin Williams

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

— Robin Williams

186. “It’s cheaper to keep her.”

— Robin Williams

187. “Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.”

— Robin Williams

188. “The French don’t have a baseball team. And if they did, there’d only be a left field, and no one would be safe.”

— Robin Williams

189. “The meek may inherit the earth, but they don’t get in to Harvard.”

— Robin Williams

190. “A woman wouldn’t make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That’s why there should be a woman President. There’d never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there’d be very intense negotiations.”

— Robin Williams

191. “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

192. “Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go “omg, omg, wtf, zzz”? Is that rude?”

— Robin Williams

193. “A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.”

— Robin Williams

194. “I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.”

— Robin Williams

195. “Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?”

— Robin Williams

196. “My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It’s always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It’s always been a home for me.”

— Robin Williams

197. “I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.”

— Robin Williams

198. “The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.”

— Robin Williams

199. “Women! Can’t live with ’em, can’t live with ’em!”

— Robin Williams

200. “What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees.”

— Robin Williams