Robin Williams - Parkinson interview [2002]

They had arrived with Mr. Tintin, did you know Mr. Clinton came alone, I think he did, what about the prom, the travel, now there's airport security? Have? It is a little difficult. You know, in the old days you used to get on the plane. Come on, get on the plane. What's happening? that one that's a gun, okay, on the plane, now it's tough, you know, they basically take everything from you, first of all, if you're eating meat on the plane, you don't have a knife because that could be a gun, so It is like the search for the flight of fire.

Sorry sir, and they take things like nail clippers from you because that could become a weapon, what do they think you're going to go over the cabin door or? lose a stepdad, come on, okay, coach, and I go, you know, I live in San Francisco, so when you go through the metal detector, there are some people with piercings, get your keys off the tip of the iceberg, not to the thing strange when I see a girl with her tongue pierced. I asked her cousin why you pierced your tongue and she said it increases sexual stimulation. It's okay, honey, don't be afraid.

Something simple, but now security is tight. Yes, yes, it is something strange. Now, you know, the Office of Homeland Security, which is, do you know what it is? Well, basically in America everyone has to watch us and warn us when bad things are going to happen because every once in a while Rumsfeld comes out and goes, I don't know where. I don't know when something horrible will happen today. There is no question: what is the central intuitive agency? A man who wears a shoe that whistles well. What they have learned so far is what the FBI can share with us: Be careful of people who take flight school below just didn't take off and land number one number two anyone who gets on a shoe gets on a plane with a shoe that warns you warning you there and now people are wide awake about that used to be on the you know, the red eye flight that they would take on the plane they would take whatever medicine they couldn't wake up and they would rush this is not Cleveland and now they're basically all up looking for anyone who orders hummus and if they had their distinguished racial profile, but a little woman would come with a sweet little southern stewardess to go to the Lyceum before we get to the fifth floor.

I just want to read a list of names, these are just these are random bag checks, these are these are totally random. I'm just going to read a list of names. Hussam has been seen blowing up Beenleigh. Judy Smith's fourteen Arabs and one blonde and all the black men and all the Hispanic men in the room were gone. Thank you God, Maddy, oh we know it's always a It's hard because pilots always are, you know, pilots used to listen to that whole Chuck Yeager rap where they waved at everyone. I just had some cocktails, let's take this sucker to the end of the rink and see what we do.

We are very affectionate and they say hey, yes, I love you all, the stewardess comes and goes in case of an attack in the cabin, a small Louisville Slugger will fall from the ceiling, grab it with both hands, aim for the hit, the attackers They kneel in the head and groin and continue hitting. It's basically home defense just like you did right, what do you mean dad's army? Yes, all men with a colostomy bag and a pitchfork. I captured Rudolf Hess personally. I threw out my colostomy bag and covered it with SH. I'll get out of it and I'm.

Speaking of the plane, stay away, God, is it true? Is it true that Winston Churchill was sometimes so drunk that they asked a BBC guy to do some of his favorite songs? He actually he reported that that's one of the guys we needed to poop on the beaches. in the air on the ground, you and Tigger, but God bless you, you have Tony Blair now, uh, us and your President Bush. I love watching Bush watching Tony speak because he's gone. I can't spell most of the ones you know, some men are. are born great some achieve greatness some get it as a graduation gift okay george ii the boy king no one reality now let's get to the purpose of love so far i think this billy connolly had the record for talking the longest without being prompted by the question and I know your two great friends.

I wonder who stopped talking first. It's hard to know. You know, once you get there, people play dead cats. You can't stop for me. I go up and it's wild because he's there. he just says tell your stories out there dunya just once i get off the plane in scotland i need subtitles this is how they can invent golf yeah they could have a couple of guinness and then next thing you know which one It's my idea for a sport, I throw a ball in a gopher hole. I mean, I like not to forget, I don't want a straight stick, a little broken stick.

I like to put a ball in a gopher hole. Oh, you mean croquet from hundreds of yards away. Oh, something like a bowling alley. alley, oh we take you off, we put things in the way like cheese and the butchers are going to hit the ball and you're sitting there hitting and you feel like you're going to have a stroke, that's what we'll call it because every time you hit? the ball you think you're going to die and right near the end I'll put up a nice flat spot with a little flag to give you hope I'll put up a pool and a sandbox to catch your ball do this once the question is the question well, the first question halfway through the

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the producers like it and we know online what we don't figure on the door is if there wouldn't be a bullfight, how it really happened, I hope it's not my trance of hunting, adventure, maybe or adventure. weekend but they've been going on while the kingdom actually took off my locator collar long enough to find John again let the dogs out we'll find out now even Prince Charles will be gone okay we'll find out on Tuesday , there is an invoice. goes, but the question is yes, yes, the question is whether this is that of a manic stand-up artist who leaves this kind of extraordinary flow of laughter and then in the work in the family work, now photo of an hour, Uli's very silent man.

You are totally bland, yes, and you face this almost, yes, that was the purpose of doing the exact opposite of what you just saw and your magic is believably good, I think because I was able to do what I just did and what I do in stage and have all that energy and then let all that go and be this man like you said, who has almost no face, who is so bland that he lives vicariously from other people's photographs and that's why I did it to be in a movie which is kind of It's very disturbing because of that stillness, I think, and it takes people by surprise, which is good, it's a very sinister movie, yes, at the end I'll talk about the ending, but it's a million levels, Not exactly what you expect, yeah. it always takes strange turns where you think oh no, he's that and you're like oh no, he's something else and even the ending where people think oh no and then it takes another turn exactly yes, yes, it always keeps you going, it takes you in one direction it always takes another turn, which is good, which is why I loved it when I read it and when I saw the videos, Mark Romanek was a video director and I, in the videos, he had done so many different things visually.

When I have to do this. movie because it combines the images and this great script. I went, this is, you know, a really interesting job, good at it, then you play, you say it was a guy in the one hour photo, yeah, the guy who basically sees the photos of you, knows you and the thong, no, no one, that's a lovely picture, one of the best, is that it basically reveals people's images and has been fascinated with this family, very good, like the InStyle poster family, a beautiful family, a beautiful husband and a wife, a child in a beautiful house, everything that is totally opposite of what his life is and you know, that's a fact, he gets to a point where he imagines that he is our uncle and he imagines that they can entering his house, he is basically part of his family, which is this sequence.

Now it's about loneliness, it's about what he too will be remembered for, isn't it? There's a great line in the movie that says with family photos it says someone cares enough about me to take my picture. I exist and it is a moment. in time, a happy moment, you know, you very rarely take pictures of Uncle Pete when he's gone, it's that moment when you really do it, especially when you look at all the pictures most of the time, like when we're in the flea market in the movie, all of these would be taken. Old photos and these are people who are gone, there is a moment where they smile at one point, just a brief moment captured, very nostalgic, right?

Yes, very strange. We need to do a bike character like that and what you think you did, about 40 movies. It's not cool to fuck the adult versions of every movie you make, yeah, but hey, what is? What is the key to the role? In the sense that you know enough about the work to say that it is the way. Some say I see. I think it was the appearance. I think when you said that kind of mix to mix everything together, you started with the hair taking all the color out, making the face so soft and so neutral that literally one day I was walking through the story that works like a big Save Mart and I disappeared and then Mark left, that's what I want, I want it to blend so that outside that store I'm lost, it's like you know it's a fish or a chameleon, what color do I wear now and that's why I would fantasize about someone else's? life did it for me too, the shoes, all of them, a woman, in fact, congratulated me on my performance and said thank you, but that was the sound man because the shoes have that kind of yes, it's a training in what small, yes, it was the walk combined with you. some small furry animal what are you doing don't be afraid we are life is always strange but yes, that was part of walking the look everything helps I think it's something like that inside and then the loneliness of a guy who is so isolated that I even think that the Images are the way to achieve another life, yes, I have never been so alone in your childhood, I just mm-hmm, maybe I was an only child, so yes, for a long time it was just me and the puppet, but it was, you know , it was a bit like, you know, an unusual time where people go, that's why you're so hairy, Romy, it wasn't, you know, the isolated show, it's a time delay thing where people go, oh, but it was, you know I could go back and use some of that as a sensory memory of that, speaking of being a Harry, you once said you're too hairy to be guided.

Actually, Coco the gorilla flirted with me and you know she can sign and It was amazing because they took me to meet her because she was part of this program to raise money for a new habitat, so she waves to her trainer, which is the ape blue eyes, then I thanked her and then she motions for her coach to do. This is what I'm saying, she wants you to lift your shirt, I lift my shirt and she pinches both my nipples and suddenly I go Wow Missy wants to play and then she grabs his hand and starts taking me in the back room and the coach says Coco and the coach says I can't help you and suddenly I think it's like the Crocodile Hunter came out and said oh Danger Danger Danger, she wants to bump into ugly ones, watch out, boys and girls, she's going to do the bone dance, Be careful, we're going to be some interesting babies this fall, but it was interesting, she flirted with me, she was, she was like grooming me like it's hard when you have so much hair.

I have seen mosquitoes take their own lives this this humor comes from this is that someone must have tried your performance would be fantastic yes voluntary Tourette what is it? It's not like it's a bit like that I mean, if there's that thing where sometimes I cross the line, obviously today I did, but a lot of them had that look like oh, stop, we'll get to the question soon, but that's where you deviate from things and sometimes you get, you'll see a moment where you go oh oh and just chase it and it's like a bit like possession and it's yes, it happens from time to time, but it was that the moment just arrives, there's nothing pre-planned, anymore you know, today there is something real, yes, sequential, oh, actually it's more like a fractal, but then we are taking revenge Stephen Hawking don't go there now call this house one day hello, I'm Stephen Hawking yes, I would like to leave a message no, I'm Stephen Hawking, so you also know you're kind.

I know you start and go to different places, usually from some strange firing of synapses. I saw your last Broadway show, oh yeah, in July live on Broadway, which has been recorded for HBO. I mean, it was a really amazing performance, throw me in for two hours. I mean, you stay there, I know, no, there is no script, there is no problem, there is nothing, no, you can't, you don't tell long anecdotes, you don't meet all the rapid fire sticks either, yeah, a thousand different people because that always started. I start in one way. club where I was you usually start out performing in bars where you can't really take the time because people go, oh no, usually the club owners don't, so I started to develop a style that was very similar to, you know, Synaptic.

They moved quickly so they never had a chance to set it as a goal and then it started to develop as this kind of idea of ​​taking an idea and running with it and then breaking away and that's been kind of the style. is improvising to the point that generally the first five minutes are like some kind of encounter, especiallyin different cities. I started talking about the city and then continued from there, but in the research you said that your influences were one or two English. comics, oh yeah, Peter Sellers, incredibly, really, yeah, I mean in terms of comedic acting, I think.

For me, the best movie was Dr. Strangelove because you know you know all these different characters, I mean, but also from dr. Strangelove, who is the best Henry Kissinger. I never understood that movie until now, hello sir. Kissinger, I've seen all your bombs, could you sign? It's the idea of ​​him and all those characters to me was the best and you know, I'm one of the few people in America who had copies of The Goon Show, oh, and nothing, nothing. Did you cross that lake? I walked on those stones those sun stones those are alligators I wonder why my legs were getting shorter an explosion that can only be here by an idiot what was that noise those are the things I grew up with and Jonathan Winters, but you know those They are my influence and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, are you also interested?

Oh yeah, you know Derek and Clark, but we can't talk about the gnomon contract now without a rubber wrapper, but you know, those were great comics. you also play the club, oh yeah I played, I played in London which was great, the comics had the Comedy Store, it's unknown if there's a comic strip, there's no Roman error, but then I played a club in Windsor. Eleni Henry had come out and played in Windsor. Which was a great idea until I got on stage and you know, the worst night of my comedy life was this is all you heard in the audience, well you have a Robin Williams in the entire universe, but even I don't get off . so and so it's like that old thing when you see the comic products on stage and I'm sweating more like Marlon Brando after Thai food it's like my bottom track is going to go if we release Robbie now, if you fart, it's You might laugh and get off stage, it was the scariest night, but you know it was good to have it in the back of your memory.

It was something great. What happens to the balance of your life now? How did you feel? You made a lot of new films, of course, and you work. you have three this year, yes, I think I will continue making films, hopefully, you feel like you have to go out every once in a while and exploit all this energy, yes, I think so, I think now I made the last film before this was. About 16 years ago, but I realized that it's important to do it for me, because you know it's cheaper than therapy number one and number two, there's a lot to talk about, you know there's a lot going on in the world, only the Pope. we just have to go meet them all he always seems like he just wants to fart and I keep pushing him typical of everyone Ronnie the Vatican Museum welcome to the history of the Vatican do you ever appear in the popemobile I just want to Put bingo balls even Liberace would go.

I'll play with a good bag. Hello, but he's on fire. The spectators continue watching. Yes, no, I have it. I will never go to Ireland. Don't get off the plane. Yes, don't get off in Rome at two. nuns who follow your Gwen, I see it, you said love is better than therapy for you, it's, it's been that for dizziness too, ugh, oh, very famous in the old days, oh yeah, nothing comes close to an orgasm has left us with a face, that's not funny, oh come on, but I think so, it helped a little, the best medicine, oh, I think it's an enema for the soul, really, I think it helps.

I think it can actually be a good thing to keep and release. It releases a lot of energy in people, it can make you able to talk about things that are sometimes quite painful and convey with comedy something that you couldn't talk about directly because people would say: "oh please don't talk about that, especially now with what's happening." Come on, you know, you know, we're considering every day, it's like George is fine, we have to go later, say Thomas Sodom Steinem suitum, tell my father, well, why don't you get a bunch of lumps, come on yeah you want to do an impression of his father, all you have to do is take it right, what you do is you take John Wayne and squeeze his ass there, yeah, George w, the first area is not going to say, don't use syntax, do you?

What are you, Yoda? Come on, none of them have a bad economy, you know? I think that's why we do comedy only for the last few seconds because okay, yeah, that wasn't anything serious. Points where you can talk where you can venture. Robin Williams. Thank you so much. Image. Hawkinson, thank you. Hey.