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Robin Williams
American
July 21, 1952
Comedian
Reality: What a concept!
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
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I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
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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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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
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Much
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Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
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You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
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Family
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
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I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'
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I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
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I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
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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.
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There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
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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.
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Truth
You
Out
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
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Learning
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Me
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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The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
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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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