American - Comedian | July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Robin Williams
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
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I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
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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?'
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I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
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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.
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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.
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We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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