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
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.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
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?'
I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.