Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Page #6

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or questions about going

into a film... now?

Some of them,

yeah, it's scary,

because you

realize one wrong--

you can be doing great,

everyone would go,

"Hey, fantastic!

Brilliant.

We'll have breakfast,

lunch, dinner."

Then all of a sudden,

one bad film,

"Oh, excuse me

will you hold?"

Okay. Stand by.

Action!

What am I?

I ain't

no "physi-kist,"

but I knows

what matters.

What am I?

I'm Popeye

the Sailor.

And I am,

what I am, what I am

And I am, what I am,

and that's all that I am

'Cause I am what I am...

Robin:
We had

the dailies, they showed

them to my manager.

He called back and said,

"Robin, I saw the dailies.

Could you open

your other eye?"

"Charlie, he doesn't

have another eye.

He's Popeye."

To me bottom,

from the bottom

to me top...

Robin:

As I'm walking outside

after the movie,

the paparazzis saw

that everyone

was kind of walking out

a little nonplussed,

and I think one guy

turned to me and went,

"Welcome to show business."

(laughs)

And the illusion

that I was gonna be

a movie star really

quickly diminished.

Dawber:

It was really near the end

of Mork & Mindy.

And he came

to work he said, "Wow.

"I went over

to the Chateau

last night.

I was supposed

to meet with De Niro."

He said,

"De Niro had a couple

of girls in his room.

He wouldn't let me in."

(laughs)

And so-- "I'm there," There is

a season, turn...

and he says,

"So I decided to go

to Belushi's bungalow."

And he said,

"He was so stoned,

he could

hardly stand up."

And then just before

our dinner break,

the producers came to me

and they said, "Pam...

"John Belushi--

they-- he-- he OD'ed

last night."

And I went, "What?"

John Belushi died today

at 33 years old.

He was a comic actor

best known

for Animal House,

the film,

and his years on

the television program

Saturday Night Live.

Belushi died

in a bungalow

at the Chateau Marmont Hotel

in Hollywood.

Later, Los Angeles police--

Dawber:

I said, "I have something

really terrible to tell you."

He said, "What?"

And I said...

"John Belushi's dead.

He died. He OD'ed."

He said, "I was

with him last night!"

And I said, "I-- I know."

He goes, "I was

with him last night!"

And I said,

"I know, Robin.

I know you were."

And so, we just

walked together

towards our trailers

and...

just before he went

into his trailer

and I said--

this is gonna

make me cry.

I said, "If that

ever happens to you,

I will find you

and kill you first."

He said,

"Dawbs, that's never

gonna happen to me."

Newswoman:

A Los Angeles County

grand jury has begun

its investigation of the death

of comedian John Belushi.

-(indistinct chatter)

-(cameras clicking)

Newsman:

Comedian Robin Williams was

the grand jury's star witness.

Williams was

one of three people

with Belushi

the night before

he died of an overdose

of cocaine and heroin.

His attorneys said

Williams was cooperating

in the investigation

and did not have

to be subpoenaed

in order to testify.

Robin:
Here's this

guy who was a beast,

who could do anything...

and he's gone,

and that sobered

the sh*t out of me.

Dawber:

And that's

when Robin stopped.

Storm:

He backed off for a while

and cleaned up.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la,

la, la, la, la, la, la, la

-Pardon me.

-(gasps)

Could you not

make so much noise?

You're scaring away

all the flies.

I directed him once,

in The Frog Prince.

He's dressed as a frog.

He just learned

in the papers

that they'd canceled

Mork & Mindy.

He gathered

a crowd around him.

He just went

into a rant about ABC

and all

of the people

who ran it

and all of the people

who had the shows

and how awful

they were.

Robin:

Just going,

"F*** these people."

Oh you mean

from inside the Frog--

"F*** these people,"

inside this giant frog head.

-It was crazy sh*t. Painful.

-Man:
Oh yeah.

At that point,

everything is like,

"F***, it's over."

Robin:

"What's gonna happen next?

What are you gonna do?"

There was fear.

Velardi:

Hollywood was

eating us up.

Robin and I

decided to leave

and come back

to Northern California.

Velardi:

We just wanted

to be together

where we didn't have

all that noise coming in.

Robin:

It's the idea

of "This is it.

I don't need to live--

I can't-- I mean,

I don't do well in LA.

Velardi:

And we wanted

to have children

and have

a life together.

You go-- you're a good boy.

Hey, Zachary.

Today, we're going

to have the baptism.

Christopher Reeve

as the godfather,

and Valerie

and Robin Williams

as the proud parents.

Should we button

that top button?

-You want this on too?

-Yeah.

Now we can do Superbaby.

Velardi:

No. Oh yeah, he can

fly into his baptism.

(laughing) No,

I don't want to fly

him any place.

We gather

to say thank you to

God for the gift of you.

With your wishes

come on from

your heart.

What would you share?

(indistinct chatter)

That-- that comes

with the package.

Pastor:
To follow

his inner self. Beautiful.

(indistinct chatter)

Robin:

You just have to be prepared

when you have a child.

Must prepare yourself.

Get ready.

You get this feeling

of like, "Okay.

(laughs nervously)

"Okay.

Series has been

over for a while, okay."

That's so hard.

I gave up the series.

I didn't want

to make that much money

for no reason anymore.

(laughter, applause)

Really does

sober your ass up

when you realize

you'll have to,

six years from now,

be going,

"Daddy doesn't

really knows what

he does for a living.

What do you want

for your birthday?"

(child voice)

"Power of attorney."

(normal voice) "Okay!"

Stand up is

a great survival

mechanism.

For me that's a joy,

that's jazz.

That's what

I have to do.

That one-on-one thing.

Maybe-- maybe

millions of years ago,

there were people--

instead of clubs, there was

somebody at a cave door,

going, "Two rock minimum."

(laughter)

(grunts)

Some guy stood up in front of

the fire going... (grunts)

"How many Neanderthals

does it take to light a fire?

Come on. None!

They don't know!"

(grunts)

Two guys in the back

with a big rock going...

"I'm really

f***ed-up. Here."

Talk about your life,

talk about drugs,

talk about

the things in the country,

talk about anything

and not have

some network

executive going,

"God, we're excited

about some of the things,

but can you

just tone it back?"

You ever think that God

might get stoned?

Look-- look at it--

oh, a strange thing.

If you look at a platypus,

I think that you think

God might be stoned.

Think that God's up there

in heaven going...

(inhales)

"Okay.

"Let's take a beaver...

"let's put on

a duck's bill, okay?

(maniacal laugh)

"Hey, what are you

gonna do? I'm God!

"Okay. Uh... it's a mammal,

"but it lays eggs.

What the hell!

"Hey, Darwin!

(kisses) Okay.

I don't know."

Velardi:

Robin loved working.

He was working

on a national tour,

and he made films.

and we oftentimes

would come

on movie sets

with Robin.

But for the most part,

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