Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
ROBIN WILLIAMSYou treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
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There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
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I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.
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You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
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If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
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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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You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
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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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If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
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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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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.
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Sometimes the mask we wear is simply just a smile.
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If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.
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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.’
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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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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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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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Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.
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You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
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Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.
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