Quote

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Robin Williams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robin Williams
Age: 63 †
Born: 1951
Born: July 21
Died: 2014
Died: August 11
Actor
Audiobook Narrator
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Mime Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Robin McLaurin Williams
Finish
Routine
Start
Everyone
Like
People
Monty
Python
Shorthand

More quotes by Robin Williams

Image
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
Image
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.
Robin Williams
Image
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Robin Williams
Image
My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
Robin Williams
Image
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
Robin Williams
Image
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
Robin Williams
Image
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Robin Williams
Image
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
Image
To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.
Robin Williams
Image
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
Robin Williams
Image
What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.
Robin Williams
Image
Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.
Robin Williams
Image
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'
Robin Williams
Image
Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
Robin Williams
Image
I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.
Robin Williams
Image
I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, Aren't you tempted? No, because of the ridiculousness of it.
Robin Williams
Image
You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing
Robin Williams
Image
Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
Robin Williams
Image
Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound.
Robin Williams
Image
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.
Robin Williams