Robin Williams Quotes - Page 13

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.

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.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

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.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

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'!"

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

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.

Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

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.

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

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.

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.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.

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