Top 45 Robin Williams Quotes

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills – no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

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

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven’t done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

I don’t have a college degree, and my father didn’t have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, ‘My boy’s got learnin’!’

You have this idea that you’d better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Carpe per diem – seize the check.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

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

When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I think ‘Dead Poets’ was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

You can start any ‘Monty Python’ routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

I think ‘Dead Poets’ was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

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

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers’ chops.

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

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn’t find acting work.

I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.

I don’t do well with snakes and I can’t dance.

The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or – the worst dread – you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.

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.

In ‘The Secret Agent,’ it’s basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don’t really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money,’ but they changed it to ‘alimony.’ It’s ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

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

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

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

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?’

Reality: What a concept!