Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Robin Williams

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, ‘If you want to do that, fine.’ When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, ‘Fine, but study welding just in case.’

Robin Williams

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

Robin Williams

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It’s always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It’s always been a home for me.

Robin Williams

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.

Robin Williams

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

Robin Williams

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

Robin Williams

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Robin Williams

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

People say that I’m a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that’s really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I’m an air breather, I’ve gotten used to that over the years.

Robin Williams