Quotes & Jokes by Robin Williams / page 10
And I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.
Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something.
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I'll guarantee you'll win.
After a while, you just kind of chill. It just becomes a whole different lifestyle and no one bothers you.
When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like "What? There's no toilet?" Once you get used to high speed you ain’t going back.
I was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would throw copies of Byron in my face!
I love the guys who say "I watch NASCAR for the racing." Yeah, and I watch porn for the acting. You liar!
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.
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?"
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.
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.