Robin Williams Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Baseball, Tired

• There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

  Robin Williams

  Giving, Failing, Shame

• And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Mom, Jesus

• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

  Robin Williams

  Children, Giving, Wonder

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

  Robin Williams

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

• Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

  Robin Williams

  Giving, Cards, Green

• Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Business, Humor

• I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Country, Giving Up

• I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Giving Up, Lying

• We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Talking

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

• Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

  Robin Williams

  Humorous, Giving, Nails

• What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Men, Giving

  "Fictional character: Donald Quinelle". "The Survivors", www.imdb.com. 1983.

• How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

  Robin Williams

  Honesty, Heart, Who I Am

• I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good restaurant?" (In a robotic voice.) "I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France." "Why, Siri?" "I don't know." It's like she was upset with the French or something. "They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?"

  Robin Williams

  Sorry, Attitude, Iphone

  Source: www.today.com

• Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

  Robin Williams

  Character, Giving, Acting

• My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Makeup, Ideas

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