Robin

by Dave Itzkoff

From me to you. You got to be crazy. You know what I’m talking about? Full goose bozo. ’Cause what is reality? You got to be crazy. You got to! ’Cause madness is the only way I’ve stayed alive. Used to be a comedian. Used to, a long time ago. It’s true. You got to go full-tilt bozo. ’Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you’re nothing. Don’t. From me to you. Don’t ever lose that, because it keeps you alive. Because if you lose that, pfft. That’s my only love. Crazy.

Marriage is a great thing, but you don’t want to have it exposed to the whole world a month or two after it happens.

Then I read it and I went, ‘Oh my God, how naïve, how narrow-minded I am.’” “You forget,” Levinson said, “that the thing spanned twelve years and there was an everyday life that went on that didn’t relate directly to the soldiers fighting.”

they can’t get you, they’ll get anybody, so wise up. They’ll take Gary Coleman.”

Viewers felt compelled to reflect on their lives and wonder who had been their Mr. Keating—that person who had provided crucial instruction or encouragement at an impressionable age, helping to make them the person that they became—or to await the arrival of such a figure at some future time.

“We lose that innocent part of ourselves, that just takes risks and leaps forward with faith that we’ll find our way, as opposed to being sick with experience—being paralyzed by knowing too much how things work.”

As Robin said of one such part he would play in this period, he was not interested in purely good or bad guys. He wanted to take on figures of elastic morality and see how much further he could stretch it. “It’s not black and white,” he explained. “There is this gray, going on constantly. A confusion, a doubt. A conscience being tweaked and pushed, back and forth. A man making a decision, going against his conscience and, in the end, hoping that he can find his way back.”

“When you go through a death scare,” Crystal said, “you realize what he’s realized: how short things are. They’re not clichés, they’re real. When you experience that, it just changes your point of view about life.”

“Diffuse Lewy body dementia (DLBD, aka diffuse Lewy body disease).”