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 WILLIAMSSome are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
More Robin Williams Quotes
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
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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.’
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But if there’s love, dear – those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.
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To live would be an awfully big adventure.
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
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When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
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Even mistakes can be wonderful.
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Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.
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You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
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Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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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.
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My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.
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If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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I wonder what chairs think about all day: “Oh, here comes another asshole
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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.
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
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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?
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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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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
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Reality: What a concept!
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Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.
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Compassionate conservative. I don’t know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
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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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Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
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