Robin Williams Quotes

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.