Robin Williams

Robin Williams

"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."
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"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."
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"I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an i Pad - I think that would put a filter into the process."
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"For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see."
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"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."
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"My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly."
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"Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah."
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"People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House."
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"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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"When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side."
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"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"
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"I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person."
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"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"
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"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."
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"Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."
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"If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing."
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"The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on."
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"Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it."
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"I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing."
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"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
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"Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string."
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