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
When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.
I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.
Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.
Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.
I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'
I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.
We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.
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.
That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved
Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.
In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.