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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.


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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.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do...
ROBIN WILLIAMS For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
ROBIN WILLIAMS When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's...
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