Robin Williams

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

I believe I could do dance on ice, or play in a musical of Freud’s life called ‘It’s Your Mother’ – or maybe one for the symbolists: ‘Jung at Heart’. There’s always the one about India: ‘The Gandhi Man Can’.

Politics: ‘Poli’a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and “tics” meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.

[on filming Red Eye] I loved the action sequences, running though an airport in heels and all that stuff. That was really fun.

Well, my sort of stability as a character, it’s never been one of my strongest attributes. I’m a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out; people run away, pull their hair off, go off in different directions, nodding their heads, and going, “Oh, god”.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I want to know the answer.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.

I think an extreme thing; I adjust it, I adjust it, I adjust it. That’s the way I get to it, but I have to push to, you know, the furthest concept possible.

There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

So, uh, get ready for a barely changed version of Obamacare called Trumpcare, which sounds like a health care plan where doctors feel your breasts for lumps whether you ask them to or not.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I’d say I’m a bit of a fatalist but not as much as I was. I used to be like “whatever happens happens” and have that innate fatalistic outlook. But I think it’s more about what you are thinking in your own mind that is the most powerful aspect of controlling your own life.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

Choosing people to be on your ‘Sammy Hagar and Friends’ record, you’re going, ‘I’ve got so many friends.’ And so many friends have called me up and said, ‘Come on dude, why didn’t you ask me to be on the record?’ I’m going, ‘Damn, I forgot.’ I really did.

I really wasn’t heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.