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
Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.
I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.
There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.
Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother
Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night
Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.
Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.
Be prepared for luck.
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'
His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.