Robin Williams Quotes

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I love performing.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I clock on, I tell jokes, I clock off again.

I just love performing.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

I do my best creating on stage.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

I'm a total performer.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I'm a performer.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.