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Robin Williams Biography

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American television and film actor as well as a stand-up comedian. Chicago-born, Williams started 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 an alien called Mork in the TV sci-fi sitcom series Mork & Mindy, Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisational skills.

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Robin Williams Quotes

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

Character, Live, New York, People, Shiznit, Shooting

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

Mickey, Mouse, Planets, Pluto

Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

Know, Knows, Life, Make, Spectacular

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Lie, Lying, Noble, Painful, Small, Sometimes

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.

Bomb, Eight, Kills, President, War, Women

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 Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Addiction, Mostly, People, Recovery, Slowed, Withdrawn

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Bad Day, Life, Paying, Philosophy, Times, Wake

We're dealing with fundamentalists. . . the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.

Amish, Country, Hijack, Horse, Mechanic, Men

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.

Laziness, Men, Sad, Tired, Using

We Americans, we're a simple people. . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Cities, Funny, Humor, People, Simple

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

Internet, Look, Looks, Pompeii, Wall, Walls

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Business, Facial, Funny, George, Giving, Humor

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Alone, Insanity, Legalized, Like, Onstage

Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air.

Art, Children, Crazy, Idea, Like, Looked

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Beauty, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Life, Poetry, Romance

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

Black, Honey, Lord, Men, Race, Species

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist

Christian, Dior, Mother, Religious, Scientist

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one. ' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

Power, Suicide, Taste, Voice, Walking, Wind

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

Back, Dies, Hunting, Like, Running, Squirrels

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C. S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself. ' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better. '

Book, Children, Growing Up, Loud, Witch, Zelda

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