"Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
Robin Williams was a celebrated actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and heartfelt performances in films like 'Good Will Hunting'.
- Born
- July 21, 1951
- Died
- August 11, 2014
- Quotes
- 360
- Rank
- #376
Quote collection
Robin Williams quotes (page 9 of 18)
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"If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing."
"Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo."
"The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task."
"Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone."
"You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act."
"Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore."
"I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence."
"The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming."
"In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing."
"When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence"
"You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks."
"When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in."
"Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?"
"You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing"
"Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution."
"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."
"My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation."
"We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers."
"I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?"