Robin Williams
American actor and comedian whose four decades of work in stand-up, film, and television — Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams — made him one of the most beloved cultural figures of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Born in 1951 in Chicago, he won the Academy Award for Good Will Hunting, six Golden Globes, and four Grammy Awards. His characters — Mr. Keating in Dead Poets Society ('Carpe diem'), Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting ('It's not your fault'), the Genie in Aladdin — became vehicles for some of the most-shared lines of contemporary moral imagination. He died by suicide in 2014 after a long struggle with Lewy body dementia, and his words on kindness, weirdness, and the depth of being human remain widely quoted.
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Quotes by Robin Williams
106 quotes“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
“It's not your fault.”
“You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
“There is still a lot of love here. There is still a lot of life to be lived.”
“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.”
“You don't know about real loss because it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself.”
“You'll have bad times — moments when you doubt yourself, hate yourself, want to give up.”
“But those bad times are what reveal who you are.”
“What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.”
“To live would be an awfully big adventure.”
“Death is nature's way of saying 'your table is ready.'”
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
“You're not perfect. And let me save you the suspense — this girl you met, she isn't perfect either.”
“But the question is: whether or not you're perfect for each other.”
“That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about.”
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”
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