Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois in 195, and died near Tiburon, California on August 11, 2014 at the age of 63.
Williams was an American actor, comedian, film producer, and screenwriter whose career was launched on TV in 1978 when he played the part of a space alien in the series Mork & Mindy.
Subsequently he achieved success in stand-up comedy; these Robin Williams quotes show why.
He also established a career as a movie actor, and featured in such acclaimed films as: The World According to Garp (1982), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society(1989), Awakenings (1990), The Fisher King (1991), and Good Will Hunting (1997).
On August 11, 2014, Robin Williams was found dead at his residence in Marin County, California. According to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, he hanged himself and died of asphyxiation.
Williams was recently receiving treatment for clinical depression, and it has now emerged that he also had severe financial problems with potential bankruptcy looming. The combination of these circumstance may have been the reason he took his own life.
It is ironic that one of Robin Williams best known quotes was:
Suicide is just a permanent solution to a short term problem
The first quote we have chosen is probably the most prophetic:
- In America they really do mythologize people when they die.
- You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
- Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
- I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.
- 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?’
- Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
- Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
- When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
- Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!
- Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
- The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
- You can start any ‘Monty Python’ routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
- Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
- I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… a large Arctic region covered with ice.
- When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
These Robin Williams quotes certainly give an insight into what many refer to as his “flawed genius.”
His bittersweet definition of divorce (#7) is a reflection that he went through two of them, which were both emotionally difficult, and financially expensive.
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