Robin Williams: manic & depressed, but not Manic-Depressive
NYTimes: You’re so manic onstage. People have said that you suffer from manic depression.
Williams: That was in an article — I think in Newsweek — and they asked me if I ever get sad or depressed, and I said, ”Yes.” There’s a lot that happens in the world to make you depressed. My mother died. Did that make me depressed? Yes. I am also manic when I am onstage. Does that make me manic-depressive? No. But people might not believe me.