Robin Williams Quotes

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.

Robin Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

Topics

FunnyLoveMotherMeLove MeYou

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Jessica Hecht

FamilyTimePeopleMeCalmThink

The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

Maysoon Zayid

WalkStereotypesIndependentStage

I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

Megan Shull

LoveTruthRideBikeAdventureMom

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

TruthArchitectureLongDialogueToo

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Tracy Pollan

WomenWayHeCharactersFemaleLot

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

Toni Collette

WorkTravelMindNiceTasteWhere

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Jules Shear

PeopleGiftBetterYouKnowRight

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

Lisa Marie Presley

I AmPeopleThinkKnowNothingMore

The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.

Brian Greene

FunnyPeopleThinkSecurityOutside

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Arnold H. Glasow

PraiseHearingSenseWondersOur

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

Alicia Garza

ExperienceRacismPeopleBetterYou

People say I have an aggressive style, and sometimes I don't think that is all just me. I think it's partly because I watched Senna when I was young, and I thought, 'This is how I want to drive when I get the opportunity.'

Lewis Hamilton

OpportunityStylePeopleMeDrive

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