This can't be true!!! I loved him, And possibly suicide. So sad that i won't sleep for weeks. RIP. Thoughts to the family.
RIP Robin Williams
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This made me so anxious. I am so terribly sorry for him and his family and friends and fans.
The Giant and I just sat with our jaws dropped, tears in our eyes and a knot in our guts!! Unable to say much at all. Having "grown-up" with him and his characters, it's like loosing a friend.For me having lost my sister to suicide it always kicks me in the gut when I hear that another life lost to the disease of depression.
Love and Prayers to the family.
Very sad news. A talented guy. The Fisher King was a great one. Hopefully an opportunity to learn about depression and addiction rather than just another morbid celebrity death story. Many people seem to believe that money and fame would make them happy. But we learn from these types of stories that it just isn't so. The world is a tough place for everyone.
Good Will Hunting is one of my favorites-what an extraordinarily talented man he was...
What Stephen King is to contemporary horror fiction, Robin Williams was to contemporary humor performance. Both unstoppable with it, both living legends, and while each genre was the genesis of their respective careers, neither genre could define them.
Whenever I watched him from the Mork years on, I knew that I was watching the comedic genius of our time. His delivery was so right on, his wit just so quick, so electric. He made the mental jumps, the connections, and forced us to laugh like no other.
Then he branched into serious acting, and doggone if he didn't nail that, too, from a grieving husband to a revolutionary doctor to a revoltingly creepy villain, and on.
Hearing about celebrity tragedy is nothing new. But this was different. When I got the news, the world stopped for a moment. I whispered, "No."
I couldn't believe it, and I just don't want to believe that that brilliant, expansive mind, that consummate entertainer, is no longer here to grace us with his jawdropping performances. But in our universe, what we want doesn't really matter so much. It was his fate, and he decided it was time to exit the stage.
Thank you, Mr. Williams, for the smiles, for the outright belly laughs, that have enriched our lives for the past nearly 40 years. Oh, how we wish you'd let us have you for another few more decades. But we're grateful beyond expression for what you gave us.
Whenever I watched him from the Mork years on, I knew that I was watching the comedic genius of our time. His delivery was so right on, his wit just so quick, so electric. He made the mental jumps, the connections, and forced us to laugh like no other.
Then he branched into serious acting, and doggone if he didn't nail that, too, from a grieving husband to a revolutionary doctor to a revoltingly creepy villain, and on.
Hearing about celebrity tragedy is nothing new. But this was different. When I got the news, the world stopped for a moment. I whispered, "No."
I couldn't believe it, and I just don't want to believe that that brilliant, expansive mind, that consummate entertainer, is no longer here to grace us with his jawdropping performances. But in our universe, what we want doesn't really matter so much. It was his fate, and he decided it was time to exit the stage.
Thank you, Mr. Williams, for the smiles, for the outright belly laughs, that have enriched our lives for the past nearly 40 years. Oh, how we wish you'd let us have you for another few more decades. But we're grateful beyond expression for what you gave us.
Wonderfully Said Grandpa
Dead Poets Society-another classic! He was so incredibly gifted!
I just now found out. My God. My God. This hurts too much. He gave us all so much joy and laughter and tears thru all these years. My God. I wish him Peace and Tranquility and Joy. I pray he is making God laugh.
He was so funny in the birdcage. Da%n!Pops, your words are spot on and perfect.
Such a loss...
Death you bast*÷d!
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He made have left this physical earth, but he will live on in our hearts-- his films, his comedy, his TV shows. Reruns and replays-- in our hearts forever.