Robin Williams

Robin Williams

"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 anyone else to feel like that."
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"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 anyone else to feel like that."
Robin Williams
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House."
Robin Williams
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"
Robin Williams
"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."
Robin Williams
"If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing."
Robin Williams
"Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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."
Robin Williams
"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
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