Robin Williams

Cocaine is God’s way of saying that you’re making too much money.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

[on Popeye] If you watch it backwards, it has a plot.

I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

I feel like everyone you mentioned owes an enormous debt to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, because I think that started this trend of people having talkshows where they have a point of view that they’re not afraid to share.

There were a couple of times where you think you’re swimming towards a guy with a breating apparatus and then you find its just some thing in the water and you’re like (imitates freaking out) and then you just know what to do and they film your stupid face just screaming underwater and then everyone starts laughing and its just like, ahh, great.

To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. Ive been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

If you sold out the Troubadour, that was it.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

It’s impossible to get along with David Geffen — his mind just moves so quickly. He’s always brighter than everybody else. I kept saying to him, ‘Sweetheart, you have a sweet side to you, a vulnerable side, but then you can be so mean and awful to people. Yeah, people are terrified of David — his temper, his intelligence. He’s not afraid of anybody.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

I say if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.