Quotes & Jokes by Robin Williams / page 10
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
After a while, you just kind of chill. It just becomes a whole different lifestyle and no one bothers you.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I'll guarantee you'll win.
There have been two different drafts of the script. The hard part about following it up is at the end of the first one, he revealed his identity to his kids. How do you play that out? How does she come back? One of the ideas was that he'd go to New York because his daughter was going to college and he'd be nearby. But as a script, it never worked.
