Top 44 Robbie Williams Quotes

I’ve lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, ‘If you sit in a barber’s shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.’ Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you’re going to get some surgery.

It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.

People change. I wouldn’t like to be accountable for the interviews I’ve done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

I’d make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I’m a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

I’ve never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

I’m quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

I don’t have anything that I treasure at all. They’re just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn’t be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

I’m still looking for the rules of what is and isn’t pop music. I’m pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn’t pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I’m a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

I’m quite obviously not the world’s most handsome man – I’m the second world’s most handsome man!

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I’m just pleased to be anywhere.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

I feel like I’m always having to justify why I haven’t kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I’m like that with anybody. I don’t let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

I’m a bit of a slag… Some people don’t think it’s very nice, but I don’t care… I’ve got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

You’ve got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

I couldn’t live without my music, man. Or me mum.

I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

People say you’ve got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They’re jealous of Justin Timberlake. I’m sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I’m sure that he wouldn’t like the prospect of it put to him, and I won’t even go there with Eminem.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I’m really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it’s great, you know.

I’ve had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

I’m not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general – it’s kind of a despised art form.

I don’t know about an awful lot of stuff. I’m not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

I’ve been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn’t have room to because I was drinking all the time.

I don’t think it’s important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It’s about how you project. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a singer.

The problem is, I don’t think I’ve got too much to offer at the minute. I’m busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it’s like, you’ve got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

I’m sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I’ll be so intimidating that he’ll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

There aren’t many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that’s what I’ve been scared of. What you don’t realise is how much you’re going to get back.

There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I’m a straight person pretending to be gay. I’ve had a lot of people to imitate. It’s easy when you’re British; we’re camp by nature, anyway.

There’s no point regretting things. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Life’s too short to worry about things I’ve said.

I’m conscious of age, but I’m more suspicious of it than anything.

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I show off – I’m a very good show off. It’s what I do, it’s what I’m good at.