Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock -… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that! — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image