Comedy as a Healer | 150+ Robin Williams Quotes
Amazing performances such as his, should never come to an end. This incredibly talented performer helped shaped the film industry to what it is today. Born Robin McLaurin Williams, a comedian and actor known for his spectacular stand-up routines and his diverse film performances, had received endless awards including Golden Globe, Emmy and Grammy among others. In spite of going through so much personally, including substance addictions and depression, many famous celebrities agree he always showed people how to make the most of life.
They also acknowledge his contribution to society as he joined the board of The Christopher Reeve Foundation, established his own Windfall Foundation and consumed his incredible energy to aid a variety of causes. His will to help and make people laugh and smile is still seen today in the originality he conveyed and the stimulating words he has stated. Read on to find a remarkable selection of quotes to motivate friends, loved ones and family. This man was a true source of inspiration.
Table of Contents
- Short Robin Williams Quotes
- Robin Williams Quotes About Life
- Inspirational Robin Williams Quotes
- Robin Williams Funny Quotes
- Robin Williams Good Will Hunting Quotes
- Robin Williams Quotes On Images
Short Robin Williams Quotes
- Smile boy, it’s the sunrise. Robin Williams
- Carpe Diem! Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary! Robin Williams
- Reality: What a concept! Robin Williams
- When in doubt, go for the dick joke. Robin Williams
- You have to break in half to love somebody. Robin Williams
- There are no rules. Just follow your heart. Robin Williams
- You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams
- There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot. Robin Williams
- I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you. Robin Williams
- The only weapon we have is comedy. Robin Williams
- You can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. Robin Williams
- Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’ Robin Williams
- All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul. Robin Williams
- Three wishes – no substitutes, exchanges or refunds. Robin Williams
- Even fools seem smart when they are quiet. Robin Williams
- The world is your oyster. Never stop trying new things. Robin Williams
- Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. Robin Williams
- My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding. Robin Williams
- All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me. Robin Williams
- What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong. Robin Williams
- The things we fear the most have already happened to us. Robin Williams
- Comedy is acting out of optimism. Robin Williams
- Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums. Robin Williams
- There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there. Robin Williams
- No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams
- We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers. Robin Williams
- If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. Robin Williams
- What’s true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not. Robin Williams
- The truth is, if anything, I’m probably addicted to laughter. Robin Williams
- Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. Robin Williams
- You’re best when you’re not in charge. The ego locks the muse. Robin Williams
- If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars… just intense negotiations every 28 days. Robin Williams
- Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. Robin Williams
- I love kids, but they are a tough audience. Robin Williams
- Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny. Robin Williams
- To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy. Robin Williams
- Dreams don’t deal in time. Time doesn’t count. Robin Williams
- When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence. Robin Williams
- The world is open for play, everything and everybody is mockable in a wonderful way. Robin Williams
- You know what music is – a harmonic connection between all living beings. Robin Williams
- If you don’t keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you’re the center square to block. Robin Williams
- Sometimes, you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun. Robin Williams
- Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. Robin Williams
- What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven’t seen before. Robin Williams
- Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity. Robin Williams
- We’re not laughing at you – we’re laughing near you. Robin Williams
- Death is nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready”. Robin Williams
- I’m history! No, I’m mythology! Nah, I don’t care what I am, I’m free! Robin Williams
- Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves. Robin Williams
- I think it’s great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. Robin Williams
- Gentlemen, haven’t we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love. Robin Williams
- The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. Robin Williams
- If we were interested in making money, we wouldn’t have become teachers. Robin Williams
- Imagining something is better than remembering something. Robin Williams
- Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running. Robin Williams
- If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing. Robin Williams
- On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested. Robin Williams
Robin Williams Quotes About Life
- A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven. Robin Williams
- A hungry stomach, an empty wallet, and a broken heart can teach you the best lessons of life. Robin Williams
- Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. Robin Williams
- Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. Robin Williams
- Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers. Robin Williams
- The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. Robin Williams
- Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets. Robin Williams
- All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. Robin Williams
- I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be. Robin Williams
- Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong. Robin Williams
- Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence. Robin Williams
- Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end none of us have very long on this earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky. Robin Williams
- Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all. Robin Williams
- If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem. Robin Williams
- I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Robin Williams
- My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. Robin Williams
- In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I’m doing in that quiet time is just observing. Robin Williams
- There are times when life’s just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, Well, what are you really like? Robin Williams
- I don’t practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it. Robin Williams
- The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a lifelong task. Robin Williams
- It’s a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a God but a man to you — when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead. Robin Williams
Inspirational Robin Williams Quotes
- I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. Robin Williams
- Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always. Robin Williams
- For me, right now, the greatest thing is to take a moment and just breathe. Robin Williams
- There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful. Robin Williams
- To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world. Robin Williams
- There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for. Robin Williams
- Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself. Robin Williams
- You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome. Robin Williams
- You don’t need cocaine! There’s another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it’s called marathon running! Robin Williams
- I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. Robin Williams
- Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn’t too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. Robin Williams
- 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
- I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that. Robin Williams
- Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea – freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having. Robin Williams
- 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
- We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Robin Williams
- The human spirit is more powerful than any drug, and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. Robin Williams
- We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? Robin Williams
- Women are wonderful. They’re amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They’re addicting in the most amazing sense. Robin Williams
- A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. Robin Williams
- Avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys – to woo women – and in that endeavor, laziness will not do. Robin Williams
- As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. Robin Williams
- My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. Robin Williams
- Politically, I don’t care what party you’re from, offer a point of view and let’s see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution. Robin Williams
Robin Williams Funny Quotes
- If you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there. Robin Williams
- Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams
- Carpe per diem – seize the check. Robin Williams
- I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. Robin Williams
- They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons – because they installed them. Robin Williams
- People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House. Robin Williams
- Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? Robin Williams
- We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins. Robin Williams
- Marriage is a triumph of imagination over intelligence. Robin Williams
- Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card. Robin Williams
- Never go to Pluto, it’s a Mickey Mouse planet. Robin Williams
- No man is an island; but some are peninsulas. Robin Williams
- Shakespeare said, Kill all the lawyers. There were no agents then. Robin Williams
- If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. Robin Williams
- Cricket is basically baseball on valium. Robin Williams
- God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. Robin Williams
- Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. Robin Williams
- You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence. Robin Williams
- My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist. Robin Williams
- If it’s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number? Robin Williams
- Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons. Robin Williams
- I’m looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now. Robin Williams
- Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone. Robin Williams
- Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. Robin Williams
- When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? Robin Williams
- I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open. Robin Williams
- Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers. Then we know who owns them. Robin Williams
- Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose. Robin Williams
- If you want to die, don’t make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous. Robin Williams
- Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. Robin Williams
- I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund. Robin Williams
- It doesn’t matter who you are, if you’ve got the legs, you can hang with them. Robin Williams
- My mother’s idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. Robin Williams
- I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass. Robin Williams
- I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It’s a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there. Robin Williams
- Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. Robin Williams
- Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon. Robin Williams
- Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. Robin Williams
- I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing. Robin Williams
- They’re talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision – you either go all the way or forget it. Robin Williams
- Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift. Robin Williams
- There are three things in this world that you need: respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. Robin Williams
- There’ll be cold fusion. We’ll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That’s right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match. Robin Williams
Robin Williams Good Will Hunting Quotes
- You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to. Robin Williams
- People call these things imperfections, but they’re not, that’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. Robin Williams
- You’re not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you’ve met, she’s not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. Robin Williams
- You don’t know about real loss, because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself. Robin Williams
- Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe. Robin Williams
- Nail them while they’re vulnerable, that’s my motto. Robin Williams
- You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road. Robin Williams
- He pushes people away before they get a chance to leave him. It’s a defense mechanism. And for 20 years he’s been alone because of that. Robin Williams
- I’d ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. Robin Williams
- If I ask you about women, you’d probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. Robin Williams
- You think I’m a failure. I know who I am, and I’m proud of what I do. Robin Williams
- I teach this shit, I didn’t say I know how to do it. Robin Williams
- You have a bulls*** answer for everything. Robin Williams
- It’d be an insult to us if you’re still here in 20 years. Hangin’ around here is a f*****’ waste of your time. Robin Williams
- Disrespect my wife again and I’ll burn down your house! Disrespect my wife again and I will end you. Robin Williams
- One night her fart was so loud it woke the dog up, she woke up and said,” was that you?” I said “yeah”, I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Robin Williams
- You know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, ’cause I think, maybe I’ll knock on the door and you won’t be there. No Goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left, I don’t know much, but I do know that. Robin Williams
Robin Williams Quotes On Images
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