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.
ROBIN WILLIAMSMy 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.
More Robin Williams Quotes
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Gentlemen, haven’t we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
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Reality: What a concept!
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
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To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.
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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
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There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.
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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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She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
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If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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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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