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I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being

» Robin Williams (1952-2014) American Comedian

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

» Voltaire (1694-1778) French Writerand historian

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

» Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Austrian Musician

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

» Robin Williams (1952-2014) American Comedian

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actor

» W. C. Fields (1880-1946) American comedian and actor

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

» Robin Williams (1952-2014) American Comedian

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

» Robin Williams (1952-2014) American Comedian

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

» Robin Williams (1952-2014) American Comedian

It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

» Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

In government, one actress is enough.

» Evita Peron (1919-1952) Argentinian Politician

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