Robin Williams Quotes

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
- Robin Williams

You are only given a little spark of madness. You must not lose it.
- Robin Williams

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
- Robin Williams

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.
- Robin Williams

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
- Robin Williams

If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing...
- Robin Williams

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.
- Robin Williams

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

I used to think the worst thing in life was 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

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.
- Robin Williams

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.''
- Robin Williams

Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.
- Robin Williams

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
- Robin Williams

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
- Robin Williams

When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.
- Robin Williams

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
- Robin Williams

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.
- Robin Williams

When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
- Robin Williams

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.
- Robin Williams

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
- Robin Williams

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
- Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
- Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
- Robin Williams

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
- Robin Williams

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
- Robin Williams