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
Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
Steve was that little boy in 'Deliverance' who played the banjo,
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.
When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.
I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.
The world is open for play, [that] everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.
Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs
Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.
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.
We wanted a name that was fun and different and something people would remember. Foundation board member Betty McCain suggested Winter Solstice, and we went with that.
I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.