Holmes - Robin Williams

I get political...when I see people being ignored, or people being denied their human rights. When they try and write the constitution on the Etch A Sketch, when they try and reverse and deny people freedoms, I become political. I don’t care whether it's Democrat or Republican. Sometimes you can get the same kind of repressive tendencies from the extreme left, you can get politically correct people getting very angry.

– Robin Williams, on being asked if he is a political person

It’s a country founded by puritans: people so uptight they were kicked out by the English ... That exists still in America. That’s at the core of who we are. And you have to fight it.

– Robin Williams

I wanted to be aware and conscious, and to experience my child growing up. And I stopped. Didn’t have to go to betty ford, didn’t go to AA. I just did it cold turkey because I realised I didn’t want to live like that anymore… I literally wanted to live a different way.

– Robin Williams, on stopping the drinking and drugs