Top 280 Robin Williams Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.”

— Robin Williams

252. “When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, ‘Can I use a lifeline?’”

— Robin Williams

253. “Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, “Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause.””

— Robin Williams

254. “Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.”

— Robin Williams

255. “There’s no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.”

— Robin Williams

256. “My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.”

— Robin Williams

257. “I never performed on drugs. That’d be stupid. It’s the same thing with athletes. They can’t perform when they have cocaine problems.”

— Robin Williams

258. “I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.”

— Robin Williams

259. “You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.”

— Robin Williams

260. “When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.”

— Robin Williams

261. “In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going That’s weird.”

— Robin Williams

262. “The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I’m having more fun doing that.”

— Robin Williams

263. “Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night.”

— Robin Williams

264. “You can start any ‘Monty Python’ routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.”

— Robin Williams

265. “Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.”

— Robin Williams

266. “I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it’s like this terrific double bill.”

— Robin Williams

267. “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

268. “People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, ‘I don’t have that button.’”

— Robin Williams

269. “An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.”

— Robin Williams

270. “The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material.”

— Robin Williams

271. “I’ve actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, “I’m in here when you’re walking around like that?””

— Robin Williams

272. “You can fool some of the people some of the time and the rest you can jerk off.”

— Robin Williams

273. “Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying ‘I KNOW!’”

— Robin Williams

274. “It’s that idea that you can have one drink – and no you can’t. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, ‘Wow.’”

— Robin Williams

275. “Sometimes with a comedy it’s just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”

— Robin Williams

276. “To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.”

— Robin Williams

277. “When I find out a hotel doesn’t have a DSL, it’s like “What? There’s no toilet?” Once you get used to high speed you ain’t going back.”

— Robin Williams

278. “As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.”

— Robin Williams

279. “I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, “Aren’t you tempted?” No, because of the ridiculousness of it.”

— Robin Williams

280. “My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There’s an energy. It’s live theater. That’s why I think actors like that.”

— Robin Williams

281. “Comedy pays the bills if I can’t find a film.”

— Robin Williams

282. “Women have so many levels. There’s the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There’s this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”

— Robin Williams

283. “Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It’s literally a choice, that’s the operative word. If you don’t like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.”

— Robin Williams

284. “My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we’re going back to the boats!”

— Robin Williams

285. “Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don’t respond to strong drugs.”

— Robin Williams

286. “What’s my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn’t there someone more qualified?”

— Robin Williams

287. “I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it’s independent or a studio movie. I’m much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.”

— Robin Williams

288. “I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don’t want to link up with some product.”

— Robin Williams

289. “The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.”

— Robin Williams

290. “I love doing live action movies, but there’s a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.”

— Robin Williams

291. “I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.”

— Robin Williams

292. “It doesn’t matter who you are, if you’ve got the legs, you can hang with them.”

— Robin Williams

293. “When you really do find a new idea or you’re in and it’s all working, that’s the gift. It’s like a musician when they hit a riff, that’s when you’re like all right, it’s mellow. You back off and just ride it.”

— Robin Williams

294. “I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it’s a chance to do two different voices.”

— Robin Williams

295. “I’ve never had a “hankering” to direct. I can perform, but I can’t write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don’t have it.”

— Robin Williams

296. “It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.”

— Robin Williams

297. “I’ve always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.”

— Robin Williams

298. “I was just in Australia... If Darwin had landed there he’d have gone “I’m Wrong.”

— Robin Williams

299. “I’m the Starbucks poster child.”

— Robin Williams