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The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.


Cinda Williams Chima

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ROBIN WILLIAMS One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Reality: What a concept!
ROBIN WILLIAMS If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
ROBIN WILLIAMS If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
ROBIN WILLIAMS In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
ROBIN WILLIAMS We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
ROBIN WILLIAMS When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
ROBIN WILLIAMS You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end o...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They...
ROBIN WILLIAMS We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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