ROBIN WILLIAMS:
 Ladies and gentlemen,
 it's time to enter
 the human mind.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
WILLIAMS:
 Stand-up is survival.
 For me that's jazz,
 that's what I have to do.
(LAUGHTER)
Robin was like
nothing I'd ever seen.
He stood out in a way
that nobody else did.
(BABBLING)
WILLIAMS: I don't tell jokes.
 I just use characters
 as a vehicle for me.
Esmeralda, why do you only visit
on certain days?
STEVE MARTIN:
 On stage, he was the master...
If you look at a platypus,
I think you might think
that God might be stoned.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
-God's up there in heaven going,
(INHALES) "Okay,
let's take a beaver,
let's put on a duck's bill,
okay?"
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
-(CACKLING)
He was
really comfortable on stage.
(APPLAUSE)
MARTIN: Off-stage, I just felt
he was holding himself together.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MAN: Early in life, did you have
 a fear of abandonment?
WILLIAMS: Oh yeah, it's
 a primal fear for any child.
 And it dictates a lot
 of how you deal with life.
He was always looking
for a connection.
It was a need
to communicate and be funny.
WILLIAMS: Every person is driven
 by some de--
(STAMMERING) deep secret.
Robin was doing drugs.
WILLIAMS: It was fear.
 Sometimes to run
 away from it all,
 sometimes to run
 into it all.
There you are, you've become
a reformed alcoholic,
you've got a steaming glass
of Perrier, going,
"I feel so much better
about myself."
(LAUGHTER)
ZACHARY WILLIAMS:
 My father didn't always feel
 he was succeeding.
But he's... the most
successful person I know.
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
ERIC IDLE: He made all people
 laugh and laugh and laugh.
(APPLAUSE)
He called me,
leaving messages on my phone...
(ANSWER MACHINE BEEPS)
WILLIAMS: It's Robin,
 I'm giving you love. Bye.
-It's a tie with three people!
-(LAUGHTER)
Pretty much said,
"(CENSORED) you, Robin."
(LAUGHTER)
Come on now.
WILLIAMS: You're only given
 a little spark of madness...
 If you lose that...
 you're nothin'.
