Quotes from Robin Williams

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

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.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

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

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.