Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that excessive wealth can lead to dangerous behavior.
Robin Williams cleverly uses humor to highlight the dangers of excess in life, particularly in the context of wealth. The quote implies that when someone is making too much money, they might turn to cocaine as a misguided outlet for their stress or excess, suggesting that sometimes too much of a good thing can lead to harmful choices.
In practice
During a comedy show, to emphasize the pitfalls of wealth.
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.
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
There's different kinds of laughs. It's like a baseball lineup: this guy's your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we're gonna win.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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