Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Page #10

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(crew laughing)

(gruffly)

Get it together, a**hole!

(normal voice)

Sorry, man.

-Man:

And...

-(laughter)

Even Sammy's

behind us going,

(mimics Sammy Davis Jr.)

"Come on! I'm here,

waiting,

decomposing man."

Clear!

What happened?

(laughter)

I'm waiting!

Idle:

It was vital for him

to have an audience.

And he was hilarious,

but it was a need,

very needy for him

to-- to communicate

and be funny.

Yoshi:

Hey, Mrs. Yorkin.

Nina:

Hey, Yoshi.

How are you?

Yoshi:

How have you been?

Long time, no see.

Mark Romanek:

He gave such

a detailed,

focused performance,

but the second

you said, "Cut,"

he would be back

to the crazy,

insane, psycho

Robin Williams.

(gruff voice)

Hi, I'm Sy Parrish,

the photo guy.

-(laughing)

-It plays

with the hard drive.

(normal voice)

I can't help you, it's not

really my section, but--

-You're Will Yorkin!

-Oh Jesus.

Oh, ho ho!

Romanek:

The urge to be funny

and to make people laugh

was so innate in him

and so, like-- almost

like breathing for him

that if he didn't get

that out of his system...

it would've infected

his performance

in a bad way.

Fu! Boy.

You're here

in the flesh.

Woo hoo!

Not often I see

you in here.

Yeah, you--

-(man chuckles)

-Hi.

Romanek:

So I would just let him go,

as long as it was reasonable

for time in the day

to just get

it out of his system.

And then,

actually, I realized

that when he makes

people laugh that hard,

he used to kind

of get high from it--

you know,

like an endorphin

rush or something.

And so if he was being

really funny one second

before the take,

I would-- he would,

you know, quiet down,

and I'd say, "Action,"

he almost had

this like glow of joy.

Even though he was playing

this very serious scene,

that also kind of gave

this patina of weirdness

to the performance.

Will:

Oh excuse me,

I need some help here.

I'm trying to figure out if this

will work with my Mac.

I'm sorry,

this isn't my section.

You're Will Yorkin.

Cheri Minns:

Robin would just be--

whatever the person

he was with,

he'd be what

they wanted

him to be.

He just didn't operate

like normal people.

He was very vulnerable

that's for sure,

He held

onto a lot of things

and internalized

a lot of things.

He felt everything.

Crystal:
He needed that

little extra hug that you can

only get from strangers.

It's a very powerful thing

for a lot of comedians.

That laugh is a--

is a drug.

That... acceptance...

that thrill is

really hard to replace...

with anything else.

Miranda:

Why do you always make

me out to be the heavy?

Oh, lighten up,

will ya?

Just realize you're

spending too much time

with those corporate clones

you used to despise!

I spend

too much time

with you, Daniel!

It's over!

It's over!

(sighs)

Come on, Miranda.

Listen, we've got problems,

but who doesn't?

We could work 'em out.

What are you talking about,

"It's over"?

We've been trying

to work them out for 14 years.

Come on, please. Listen.

Maybe we need

some help, okay?

Maybe we can go

to a family therapist.

They'll help us

through this together.

We have nothing

in common.

Oh, sure we do.

We love each other.

Come on, Miranda.

We love each other.

Robin:

I don't know the great

secrets of acting.

It's like some sort

of Zen concept where

you finally say,

"Okay, what you

think is acting,

don't do that anymore

and-- and stop."

If you just relax,

listen, be in the scene,

you won't have

to worry about finding

that one funny line

or... acting.

If you just

don't interfere

with yourself,

you're quite interesting.

People will register

your thoughts

and they will pick up

on what you're going through

because your face

is accessible.

And you'll be

in character,

the audience

will be following along,

And the most

important thing is

for an audience

to follow

the character through.

Don't do anything

and you'll be amazed

how much you're doing.

Don't do anything.

Just talk.

My wife used to fart

when she was nervous.

She had

all sorts

of wonderful

-little

idiosyncrasies.

-(both laugh)

You know what?

She used to fart

in her sleep.

Sorry I shared

that with you.

Ah, but, Will,

she's been dead two years,

and that's the sh*t

I remember.

Wonderful stuff,

you know,

little things like that.

Ah, but,

those are the things

I miss the most,

those little idiosyncrasies

that only I knew about.

That's what

made her my wife.

Oh, and she had

the goods on me, too.

She knew

all my little peccadillos.

People call

these things

"imperfections,"

but they're not.

Oh, that's the good stuff.

And then we get

to choose who we let

into our weird little worlds.

You're not perfect, sport.

And let me save you

the suspense:

This girl you met?

She isn't perfect either.

But the question is

whether or not you're

perfect for each other.

That's the whole deal.

That's what intimacy

is all about.

Robin:
Every person

is driven by some deep,

deep, deep, deep,

deep, deep, deep,

deep secret,

and finding that

for a character

gives you that

which drives it through.

You look for it

and then you try

and find that essence,

what drives them.

If you can find it,

if you find the right one,

you'll know it.

(panting)

Idle:

He had a restless mind.

His thing was

physical exertion.

He'd go for 60 miles,

70 miles on his bike.

I think that stopped

the thoughts...

'cause the thoughts

can be... disturbing.

I think

he didn't feel worthy.

There's no "I'm wonderful."

No. It was--

it's lack of self-worth

somewhere in there, too.

Announcer:

Welcome to the 2003

Critics' Choice Awards.

The nominees are...

Daniel Day-Lewis

for Gangs of New York...

(applause)

Jack Nicholson

for About Schmidt...

(applause, cheers)

Edward Norton for--

no, I'm just kidding.

-(laughter)

-Um, Robin Williams...

for One Hour Photo.

(cheers, applause)

(gasps)

Drama.

There's been a tie.

I swear to God.

Daniel Day-Lewis

for Gangs of New York...

(cheers, applause)

and Jack Nicholson

for About Schmidt.

Nicholson:

Well, I don't usually

get this baked

-when it's on television.

-(laughter)

Robin, would you

come up and give...

(cheers, applause)

Would you--

would you give the funniest

acceptance speech ever?

What Jack is

trying to say here...

(laughter)

is he's so happy

to be here,

he could drop a log, really.

Nicholson:
Until he

got here, I couldn't

think about anything

but spanking Jillian Hall.

I don't what happened to me.

-I could do that all night.

-Robin:
Ho, ho, ho, ho!

-Let's do that

for the deaf now.

-Yeah, yeah.

Whoo!

Whoo. Whoo.

I really wanted to say

how grateful I am

to the film critics

for honoring Robin, and...

-(laughter)

-(sighs)

Yeah, thanks for nothing!

(laughter, applause)

-It's a tie

with three people!

-Yeah.

You pretty much said,

"(bleeps) you, Robin."

Thank you,

I hope that's televised!

(Nicholson clears throat)

(laughter)

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