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
Without (the reality), it's just slamming into things. If you start with that physical comedy, then things surely but slowly fall apart. But you build on that reality and then you can go pretty outrageous - up to the Keaton-like gags.
Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
The moments of comedy are there. But the whole idea of a vacation is the stripping away of stuff and then, by the end of the vacation, (at least) in my life, you do have these moments as a group, as a family having a great time, so mellow again. It takes a while to do that but that's what this movie is about.
Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.
Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.
I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.
The only weapon we have is comedy.
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.
I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
We show-ed a lot of intensity on defense early. But we missed one of our point guards who is the spark for our defense.