Robin Williams
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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.
Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
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.
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'!'
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.
I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.Collection: Love
There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.Collection: Giving
I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."Collection: Funny
Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.Collection: Hate
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.Collection: Life
Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.Collection: Love Life
If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.Collection: Suicide
We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.Collection: Hunters
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.Collection: Life
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.Collection: Life
Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.Collection: Funny
If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.Collection: Memorable
I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Stars
Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.Collection: Believe
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.Collection: Death
Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.Collection: Philosophy
Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.Collection: Fun
There are no rules. Just follow your heart.Collection: Heart
Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.Collection: Lying
If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.Collection: Inspirational
Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?Collection: Funny
When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.Collection: Ideas
Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.Collection: Philosophy
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?Collection: Book
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.Collection: Dead Poets Society
Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.Collection: Too Late
Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.Collection: One Line
Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.Collection: Pay
You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How EgyptianCollection: Inspiration
I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!Collection: Carpe Diem
What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.Collection: Strong