Robin Williams
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williamswas an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, singer and voice artist. Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame as Mork in Mork & Mindy, Williams went on to establish a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisational skills...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth21 July 1951
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.
I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"
You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.
The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.
My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.
How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.
Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.