Robin Williams

Politics: ‘Poli’a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and “tics” meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.

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

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

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

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

I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.

If Kyle had ever been dedicated to nothing but driving, he’d have been really, really good. But he wanted to do a lot of other things. He’s always been that way. Still is.

I’m not sensitive, I give people things exactly the way they are, and if they’re ready to absorb it they will, and if they aren’t they won’t.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

My most favorite joke is that to keep a marriage, the husband should have a night out with the boys and the wife should have a night out with the boys, too.

I don’t want to be stuck in the ’70s or the ’80s. I just keep moving. That’s my intention. That’s my stimulus. Otherwise, I’d be at home doing the garden.

Entertainment isn’t just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it’s great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I have to work with IKEA… Yo, IKEA, let Kanye create! I want a bed that he makes! I want a chair that he makes! I want more products from Ye!

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

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

People find out I’m an actress and I see that ‘whore’ look flicker across their eyes.

Everyone wants to be black so bad I wake up feeling so exclusive!

Well, I speak for my show only when I say we’re in debt to journalists because we’re just pulling clips all day long which they made in the first place. We know that a lot of people watching our show haven’t been watching the news as closely as we have – they haven’t been following hundreds of reporters on Twitter all day. So I guess our goal is to say: ‘Hey, here’s what happened today in 10 minutes, and hopefully we’ll tell you in a way that won’t make you throw your remote at the television’.

Anything where we’re the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

[whether he thought he was a sexy man-beast] I wouldn’t be able to say. I don’t think I’m much of one. It’s funny, it is the secret to any guy – if people find him unattractive or whatever you just get Stephenie Meyer to tell the world, to put on her Web site that this guy is now attractive and everybody changes their minds.