Robin Williams Quotes

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

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.

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

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

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy.

A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

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?'

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.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten.

It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

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.'

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

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

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

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.

And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish.

Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

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

Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

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.

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

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.'

If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.