Robin Williams Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.
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  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Philosophy, Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Baseball, Tired

• Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Robin Williams's best-loved gags" by Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

• 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?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Wine, Humor

• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

• People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Memorable, Humor

• I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

  Robin Williams

  Memorable, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Robin Williams

  Laughing, Choices, Scary

• The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Funny, Humor

• People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

  Robin Williams

  People, Buttons, Crystals

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

• [On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."

  Robin Williams

  Weed, Thinking, Littles

  "Inside the Actors Studio (Season 7, Episode 14: Robin Williams)". Talk-Show, June 10, 2001.

• Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

  Robin Williams

  Way, Comedy, Trauma

  "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 12, 2013.

• I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

  Robin Williams

  Comedy, Release, Audience

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

• I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

  Robin Williams

  Practice, Ideas, Comedy

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

• It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

  Robin Williams

  Looks, Comedy, Metaphor

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

• The only weapon we have is comedy.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Weapons, Comedy

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Cousin, Years

• We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, President

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Water

• Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

  Robin Williams

  Real, Play, Levels

  Source: www.today.com

• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Hypocrisy, Sides, Comedy

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Media

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