Robin Williams at 60: "I'm in Love!"

Our exclusive one-on-one interview with legend Robin Williams

November 14, 2011
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Robin Williams at the "Happy Feet 2" premiere with his lovely new wife Susan. 

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Robin Williams is trying to tell me what it feels like to be 60.

In a suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, he says, "What did it mean to hit the milestone of turning 60?  I felt….."

Then he lets his head drop dramatically onto the table in front of him. He pretends to stop breathing. 

Then he releases a wicked laugh.

"Wouldn't it be cool if I just expired before I could answer!" he says with glee, his head launching upwards again and a merry smile on his face.

"You could write, 'It was his last interview!'"

Say it ain't so Robin. He looks very energetic on a Monday morning. A trim figure with a flash of short black hair, the casual Williams wears blue jeans a T-shirt.

He's thin and trim thanks to all that biking he does around his neighborhood in San Francisco.

We need him around because when you press him a bit, Williams says it was amazing to turn 60.

"I had a midlife crisis at 40. I'm here at 60 feeling great and in love," says Williams who married for the third time last month.

"I also had heart surgery a few years ago, so it's great to see each new day. Plus, thanks to my heart surgery I have a cow valve in me. I just do everything standing up," he jokes.

ROBIN WILLIAMS: "I AM IN LOVE."

"I know love is the most important thing in life or pretty close to it," says Williams who surprised everyone when he married graphic designer Susan Schneider last month in Napa Valley. He celebrated the union flanked by pals Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Billy Crystal. His children were also at his side. 

There are pictures of him all over the web grinning and sightseeing on his honeymoon in romantic Paris.

"I'm just off my honeymoon at age 60 and it's wonderful," Williams says. "I can also actually remember it, which his even better. Plus, a honeymoon in Paris doesn't exactly suck."

Back on the home front, he does double duty in the new animated "Happy Feet 2" as the voices of Latin penguin/lover Ramon and the strong bird Lovelace.

"Our director George Miller said to make Ramon an Argentinean football fan. I wanted him to be small but fierce – mostly like myself. With Lovelace, he's a bit Barry White," Williams opines. "I grew up in Detroit and I'd hear Baptist ministers on TV. They would scream, 'I want to feel it now! The power of love!' I used a little bit of that, too."

Tell him that his penguin in this film believes that love truly is the answer and will fight for it.

Does he share those views?

 "Ah, love. It's cheaper than Prozac. In the film, I play a hopeless romantic who wants love in the worst way, which is usually in person. He takes rejection as acceptance. When he sees this other bird named Carmen, he wills that she will love him because he's smitten.

" Worse yet – he's bitten," he jokes.

"I think you do have to take a leap of faith when it comes to love. Most often love doesn't happen, which makes it quite lovely when it does happen, he says.

In the film, he gets to romance gorgeous "Modern Family" star Sophia Vergara.

"When she walks in the room you're like, 'Que pasa.' I was like, 'Yeah! It was like the room was in 3D."

A big hit holiday film. A new family.

He laughs when asked if this is a milestone year for him.

"Stop," he pleads. "Don't say milestones. You can't mention the word stones to anyone over 60."

"But those, too, will pass," he reasons with a laugh.

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Anonymous | May 22, 2012
I always liked Robin Williams. Glad he has his life back together.
Anonymous | Feb 21, 2012
Al final ha padsao, Robbin Williams se ha convertido en un hombre lobo o un oso muy bajito, me recuerda a Nicholas Cage que llamo a su hijo Kal-El porque le gusta Superman, a ese fijo que lo ponian a vivir en el patio del colegio.

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