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“To be a fool is to be free.”
“In the costume of the clown, the truth wears its mask.”
“Be kind to your future self. Today's choices ripple.”
“Love is what stays after the body is gone.”
“Be yourself. The world needs the original you.”
“There is no version of you the world doesn't need.”
“What you bring is enough.”
“To make someone laugh is to give them a moment of grace.”
“The performer's first duty is service.”
“In the green room, the holy is sometimes the silence.”
“Acting is the highest form of empathy.”
“To play a character is to live their life for a few hours.”
“Each role is a small lifetime.”
“Comedy is the only way some truths can be told.”
“In the joke, the truth slips through.”
“To laugh at oneself is the first wisdom.”
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
“The world rewards the silly more than it admits.”
“In every moment of failure, a teacher hidden.”
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