Robin Williams Quotes

Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given a wish as her reward.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.