Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Robin Williams Quotes
AchievementDriveEducationSchool I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
CreativityHumorMovie Ideas I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
AuthenticityCreativityIndividualityUniqueness You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
ComedyCultural ImpactFameIconicity You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
EducationSkillsVersatility The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
BelongingLonelinessRelationship I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
CelebrityFameFan Behavior 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.
CredibilityEthicsLeadership Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Stage Presence 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.
AddictionNostalgiaVideo Games 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.
Family I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
ActingRecognitionTalentWriting I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
AppreciationLoveNew Beginnings I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.
Family ConnectionsHierarchyIdentityPerceptionRoyalty When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
ActingCharacter Creation Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
AuthenticityEmotional SpectrumMental HealthResilienceSelf-awareness Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
AdmirationAppreciationTalent One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
HumorPoliticsSatire People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
EducationFamily PrideLearningSuccess 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'!'
HumorResilienceSelf-Perception I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.
CollaborationCommunityCreation Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
CreativityFreedomImprovisationRiskSuccess The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.