Robin Williams Net Worth

Robin Williams's Quotes

• Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
• ...And now that you have a child you have to clean up your act, 'cause you can't drink anymore. You can't come home drunk and go, "Hey, here's a little switch: Daddy's gonna throw up on you!".
• Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
• See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
• Ballet: Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Interesting Facts about Robin Williams

1. He moved to San Francisco, CA, when he was 16.
2. He studied acting briefly at The Juilliard School under John Houseman. Houseman told him he was wasting his talent at Juilliard and he should strike out on his own and do stand-up comedy.
3. He resided with his family in San Francisco's Seacliff neighborhood for many years. before moving to San Francisco suburb of Tiburon in the 2000s, just across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, CA.
4. He was set to play Drew Barrymore's father in Home Fries (1998) and had the role during production, but pulled out of the part days before his scenes were to be shot.
5. In October 1997 he was ranked #63 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
6. In 1997 he was voted funniest man alive by Entertainment Weekly.
7. When he auditioned for the role of Mork from Ork on Happy Days (1974), producer Garry Marshall told him to sit down. Williams immediately sat on his head on the chair. Marshall hired him, saying that he was the only alien who auditioned.
8. During the making of Mork & Mindy (1978), he departed from the scripts and ad-libbed so many times and so well that the producers stopped trying to make him stick to the script and deliberately left gaps in the later scripts, leaving only "Mork can go off here" in those places so he could improvise.
9. He released the album: "Reality... What a Concept" on Casablanca Records (1979).
10. He was set to appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Matter Of Time (1991), as the time traveler Prof. Berlinghoff Rasmussen, but a schedule conflict with Hook (1991) forced him to drop out (the role eventually went to Matt Frewer). He was inspired to seek a Trek role by his friend, Whoopi Goldberg, who had a recurring role on the series as the bartender Guinan.
11. He was a huge fan of the sport of Rugby, and in particular New Zealand'e All Blacks star Jonah Lomu, who flew to San Francisco and gifted him with a signed All Blacks jersey. On a recent visit to New Zealand they were reunited on national television, Williams accepting another All Blacks jersey -- except this time it had Jonah's #11 on the back.
12. For his first year of college he attended Claremont Men's College (renamed Claremont McKenna College in 1981), in Claremont, California with the intent to study political science. While there he played soccer and took an improvisational theater class because it was the only one open to both men and students from the nearby women's school, Pitzer College. Both colleges later became coeducational in the 1970s. He soon stopped going to the political science classes and his father said he would no longer pay for college so Williams returned home and studied theater at College of Marin junior college in Marin County. He later transferred to The Juilliard School in New York City.
13. In 1998 he was listed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 Best Actors.
14. He was a huge fan of the BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). The admiration was mutual. Paying tribute after his death, Michael Palin said that Williams was "up there" with his all-time heroes, Spike Milligan and Peter Cook, and performing with him "would have been like being invited to play in a jazz band when you couldn't play an instrument". However, Palin also added that Williams was "possessed" by "the devil of comedy", which he said "must have been hard to live with".
15. He studied at The Juilliard School with actor Christopher Reeve. The two remained good friends until Reeve's death in 2004.
16. He enjoyed cycling and occasionally trained with Lance Armstrong.
17. After having won the Academy Award for Good Will Hunting (1997), he sent Peer Augustinski (who was his standard German dubbing voice) a little Oscar replica with a note: "Thank you for making me famous in Germany.".
18. He graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, CA, north of San Francisco. Other famous alumni from Redwood include Gabrielle Carteris (Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)) and Erin Gray (Kate Summers from Silver Spoons (1982)), and Jason Branson, radio talk show guest/therapist and author.
19. In 2003, he won Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for "Robin Williams - Live 2002".
20. In 1980, hit #104 on the Billboard Singles Charts with "I Yam What I Yam" (Boardwalk 5701).