Robin Williams, on Inside the Actors Studio, is talking about Elmer Fudd (remember him from the Bugs Bunny cartoons?). He suggests Elmer could do great in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Mr. Williams stands up. There is a brief pause. My brain is trying to catch up, searching for images of Elmer Fudd, plodding through the memory banks for snippets of the play mentioned, wondering how in the world the two fit together...
And in the blink of an eye, Mr. Williams' technique, craft and timing kick in and the line ("Stella...!") simply flows out of him, sounding just like, well, Elmer Fudd. Hilarious.
The inspiration comes, forms into an idea, and the master-artist's tool (in this case, the actor's body-mind) is so refined it responds and expresses without hesitation.
Robin Williams -- master comic, actor and improviser. (If you haven't seen the Inside the Actors Studio interview, go to youtube. It is classic. You won't stop laughing for an hour.)
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