Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Robin Williams Quotes
LoveNew BeginningsAppreciation I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.
EthicsLeadershipCredibility Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
AppreciationTalentAdmiration One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
ComedyFameIconicityCultural Impact You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
ActingCharacter Creation Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
RoyaltyFamily ConnectionsPerceptionHierarchyIdentity When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Mental HealthEmotional SpectrumSelf-awarenessResilienceAuthenticity 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.
IndividualityCreativityUniquenessAuthenticity You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
HumorCreativityMovie 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.
SatirePoliticsHumor People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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.
Family I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
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.
SkillsEducationVersatility 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.
EducationLearningSuccessFamily Pride 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'!'
TalentActingWritingRecognition I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
SchoolEducationAchievementDrive I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
LonelinessRelationshipBelonging 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.
Video GamesAddictionNostalgia 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.
CollaborationCreationCommunity Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
ImprovisationCreativityRiskSuccessFreedom The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
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.
Career ChoicesNew ExperiencesCollaboration 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.
AdaptationParenthoodNew Beginnings I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
Immigration The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
RightIntegrityMoralityConsequenceChoice What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
RespectCourageMoral LeadershipLegacyAdmiration 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.
HumorUnexpectednessCreativityResilienceOptimism We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
HumorSarcasmPoliticsMedia When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
ComedyEnvironmentObservationProgression 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.
PerformanceChallengeHumor I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
AdmirationChemistryViolenceDisillusionmentLiterature In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
AchievementHonorRealitySuccess Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
Self-Doubt 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.
EntertainmentAnimalsCompetitionHumorUnexpectedness 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.
ComedyAngerOutrageHypocrisyAbsurdity For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.