Robin Williams movie quotes

“Yesterday I bought my first pair of American shoes. They were made in Italy.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”

Robin Williams - Patch Adams

“I believe we are the chosen people... but I wish the Almighty had chosen somebody else.”
Robin Williams - Jakob

“- Poopdeck Pappy: Ugh, you idiot.
- Popeye: You said cut you down.
- Poopdeck Pappy: I didn't say cut me down. I said get me down, get me down. And don't you ever pick up another knife, if you do, I'll make you eat it. You'll be known as the Sword Swallowin' Sailor.”

Ray Walston - Poopdeck Pappy
Robin Williams - Popeye

“- Alison McAndrews: Both of the candidates you're running against are happily married, with kids. You're divorced and have no children. So how are you gonna come off as family-friendly?
- Tom Dobbs: Well, I could hold my mother's ashes.”
Karen Hines - Alison McAndrews
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“- Raul: What you huggin me for?
- Ramón: He told me to.
- Raul: Get away.
- Ramón: No, you like it!”
Lombardo Boyar - Raul
Robin Williams - Ramon

“- Peter Banning: You're not old enough to shave! What are you doing with a sword? And flying around... this is an insurance nightmare! What is this, some sort of Lord of the Flies preschool? Where are your parents? Who's in charge, here? No! No, Mr. Skunkhead with too much mousse. You are just a punk kid. I want to speak to a grown-up!
- Rufio:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robin Williams - Peter Banning
Dante Basco - Rufio

“I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.”
Robin Williams - Popeye

“You do not know how precious your gift is. You're just a kid, you don't know. I do.”

Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

“I know your dad made a lot of bad choices - but that doesn't mean you have to.”

Robin Williams - The Genie

- Doreen: I never thought I'd be contemplating marriage to a man who owned an automatic assault rifle.
- Donald: It's not automatic, hon. It's semiautomatic. Automatic weapons are illegal. And why are you using the word "contemplating"?
- Doreen: I just mean, Donald, you seem so different.
- Donald: Hey, Frizzer, I'm no different, I'm just armed.
Annie McEnroe - Doreen
Robin Williams - Donald Quinelle

“- Mrs. Doubtfire: Once the father of your children is out of the picture, the only solution is total and lifelong celibacy.
- Miranda Hillard: Celibacy?
- Mrs. Doubtfire: Yes. And if you violate that, heaven forgive you! Good luck.”
Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire
Sally Field - Miranda Hillard

“- Mitch: I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you a little old to be starting medical school?
- Patch Adams: You know, Babe Ruth was 39 when he joined the Yankees.
- Mitch: No, he wasn't!
- Patch Adams: I know. If you have a better example, please tell me.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Mitch
Robin Williams - Patch Adams

- Armand Goldman: What are you giving him drugs for? What the hell are Pirin tablets?
- Agador: It's aspirin with the "A" and the "S" scraped off.
- Armand Goldman: My God, what a brilliant idea!
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman
Hank Azaria - Agador

“- Rupert Burns: What do they say?
- Andrew Martin: That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do. Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Oliver Platt - Rupert Burns
Robin Williams - Andrew Martin

“That's all right. I did. Hey, come on now. If you kick out the gooks, the next thing, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks and kikes. All that's gonna be left in here are a couple of brain-dead rednecks, and what fun would that be?”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't fair, is it?”
Robin Williams - Doctor Cozy Carlisle

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“- Dale Putley: $5,000 in cash. What is he doing with $5,000 in cash?
- Jack Lawrence: He stole it.
- Dale Putley: Why do you always jump to the worst possible conclusion?
- Jack Lawrence: Okay, he won it in a hair-whirl contest.”

Robin Williams - Dale Putley
Billy Crystal - Jack Lawrence

“You better grow eyes in the back of your head, you horned piece of shit, because I'm not gonna sleep until worms are crawling up your foam-rubber ass!”

Robin Williams - Rainbow Randolph

“- Vladimir Ivanoff: That be two big Macs, one quarter pounder with cheese, six pieces chicken McNuggets, two boxes Ronald McDonald cookies, one order McFries, two chocolate McShakes. Meh that to go?
- Woman in McDonalds: No, I eat it here.
- Vladimir Ivanoff: Come back McSoon.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“If I seem to be getting smaller, it's because... I'm leaving!”
Robin Williams - Fender

“- Scott Andrews: I feel like such a loser.
- Dale Putley: Come on, Scott, you're still young! Being a true loser takes years of ineptitude.”
Charlie Hofheimer - Scott Andrews
Robin Williams - Dale Putley

“Nail them while they're vulnerable, that's my motto.”
Robin Williams - Sean Maguire