The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the enjoyable aspects of creating animated films and the perception of ease in artistic work.
Robin Williams humorously comments on the creative process of making animated films like 'Aladdin', highlighting that while the recording process can be chaotic and fun for actors, most of the hard work falls to the animators. This underscores an appreciation for the art of voice acting while also poking fun at the seemingly effortless rewards that come from such a joyful job.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about pursuing passion projects in creative industries.
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
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