Robin Williams Quotes

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Robin Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGreatSchoolMeYouActing

I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

HomeBestDayThinkEndPressure

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

PoetryBetterSomeoneTryingYou

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Meshell Ndegeocello

IdeasComplicatedPersonalNormal

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

Steven Wright

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Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

Ross Lovegrove

PeopleSocietyEyeDesignWayNever

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

Mary Steenburgen

MyselfFeelWantProveWayNeed

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

Josh Radnor

WeirdMoviesWayHearEarActually

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

MeCoolSmallThoughtBecauseGet

What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.

Paul Wesley

WomenMeFashionWearGoingIdea

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

Shahid Khan

DreamsAmericanGoGetMillion

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Mariella Frostrup

LifeSickOldTwoYearsDays

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

Lionel Blue

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