Robin Williams Quotes About Comedy
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When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
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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?'
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.
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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.
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We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
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The only weapon we have is comedy.
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My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.
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My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.
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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.
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It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
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[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."
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I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
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The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
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Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.
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You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.
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We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
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Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.
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Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.
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Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.
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I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.
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