Robin Williams

“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.”

“When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.”

“From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.”

“People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.”

“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.”

“I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”

“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.”

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

“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.”

“I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.”

“Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.”

“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”

“I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.”

“You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.”

“I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.”

“I love kids, but they are a tough audience.”

“I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.”