Robin Williams Quotes
“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
“Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.”
“Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
“Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
“Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”
“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
“Don’t mess with me, man, I’m a lawyer!”
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you, you are making too much money.”
“Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong.”
“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”
“I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.”
“The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished."
“If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
“I’m history! No, I’m mythology! Nah, I don’t care what I am, I’m free!”
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”
“Avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys – to woo women – and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”
“The things we fear the most have already happened to us.”
“You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”
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“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
“If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.”
“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
“You don’t need cocaine! There’s another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it’s called marathon running!”
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.”
“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”
“There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.”
“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’”
“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”
“Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves.”
“I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”
“Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”
“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
“What’s true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.”
“For a while you get mad, then you get over it.”
“When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?”
“I’m looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now.”
“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”
“My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.”
“We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
“When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”
“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons – because they installed them.”
“Be prepared for luck.”
“The truth is, if anything, I’m probably addicted to laughter.”
“You have to break in half to love somebody.”
“I’m an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It’s like same religion, half the guilt.”
“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was.’ But if you continue the way it was there will be no ‘is.’”
“They’re talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision – you either go all the way or forget it.”
“What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven’t seen before.”
“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.”
“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?’”
“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.”
“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.””
“When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence.”
“If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.”
“If you don’t keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you’re the “center square to block.””
“You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.”
“There are times when life’s just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, “Well, what are you really like?””
“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.”
“Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.”
“No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.”
“You’re going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian.”
“I know size can be daunting but don’t be afraid.”
“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.’”
“I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.”
“It’s hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut.”
“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.”
“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
“People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.”
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
“All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.”
“Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums.”
“We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers.”
“The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.”
“I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open.”
“Carpe per diem – seize the check.”
“Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.”
“Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!”
“You know what music is – a harmonic connection between all living beings.”
“Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.”
“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”
“Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.”
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
“Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.”
“Death is nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready.”
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
“Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.”
“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said,
“Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.”
“You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.”
“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 realise now that my doctor is also a dealer…”
“A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.”
“Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.”
“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.”
“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”
“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”
“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.”
“Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”
“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
“You’re still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude.”
“Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”
“I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.”
“Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.”
“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.”
“I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”
"You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?"
"You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer."
"You don’t know about real loss because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself."
“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
“Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.”
“Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
“Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
“Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”
“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
“Don’t mess with me, man, I’m a lawyer!”
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you, you are making too much money.”
“Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong.”
“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”
“I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.”
“The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished."
“If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
“I’m history! No, I’m mythology! Nah, I don’t care what I am, I’m free!”
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”
“Avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys – to woo women – and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”
“The things we fear the most have already happened to us.”
“You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”
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“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
“If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.”
“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
“You don’t need cocaine! There’s another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it’s called marathon running!”
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.”
“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”
“There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.”
“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’”
“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”
“Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves.”
“I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”
“Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”
“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
“What’s true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.”
“For a while you get mad, then you get over it.”
“When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?”
“I’m looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now.”
“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”
“My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.”
“We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
“When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”
“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons – because they installed them.”
“Be prepared for luck.”
“The truth is, if anything, I’m probably addicted to laughter.”
“You have to break in half to love somebody.”
“I’m an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It’s like same religion, half the guilt.”
“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was.’ But if you continue the way it was there will be no ‘is.’”
“They’re talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision – you either go all the way or forget it.”
“What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven’t seen before.”
“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.”
“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?’”
“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.”
“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.””
“When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence.”
“If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.”
“If you don’t keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you’re the “center square to block.””
“You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.”
“There are times when life’s just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, “Well, what are you really like?””
“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.”
“Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.”
“No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.”
“You’re going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian.”
“I know size can be daunting but don’t be afraid.”
“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.’”
“I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.”
“It’s hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut.”
“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.”
“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
“People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.”
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
“All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.”
“Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums.”
“We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers.”
“The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.”
“I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open.”
“Carpe per diem – seize the check.”
“Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.”
“Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!”
“You know what music is – a harmonic connection between all living beings.”
“Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.”
“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”
“Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.”
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
“Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.”
“Death is nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready.”
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
“Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.”
“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said,
“Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.”
“You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.”
“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 realise now that my doctor is also a dealer…”
“A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.”
“Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.”
“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.”
“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”
“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”
“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.”
“Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”
“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
“You’re still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude.”
“Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”
“I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.”
“Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.”
“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.”
“I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”
"You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?"
"You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer."
"You don’t know about real loss because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself."
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