[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."
Interpretation
The quote highlights the joy and excitement that comes from the act of creating, humorously referencing Einstein's potential state of mind.
Robin Williams expresses the exhilaration that creators feel when they engage in their work, suggesting that this 'endorphin buzz' is a natural part of the creative process. By bringing Einstein into the conversation, he playfully implies that the joy of creation transcends the need for substances and is rooted in the act itself, emphasizing the profound satisfaction that comes from bringing ideas to life.
In practice
In a speech about innovation at a tech conference, one might use this quote to illustrate the benefits of creativity.
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.
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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.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
The head of the photographer is more important than his camera
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
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