Robin Williams says he had his mid-life crisis at 40.  Now 60, he’s just returned from a Paris honeymoon with graphic designer Susan Schneider (47) and “feeling great and in love.”

“I know love is the most important thing in life or pretty close to it,” says a thin and trim Williams, who stays that way thanks to all the biking he does around his San Francisco neighbourhood.

(He visited mate Lance Armstrong during the 2009 Tour de France)

‘Luckiest Man’

Separated from wife Number 2 since 2008, he’s been with Schneider two years, meeting her soon before his heart operation and subsequent convalescence.

Williams accepts that not everyone will understand why he chose to walk down the aisle for the third time, but for him, the decision was easy.

He says, “I’m the luckiest man in the world… Being with a comedian, living with a comedian, is like keeping a chimp for a pet. You know we’re kind of cute but after a little a while, (you get thrown out).

“So if you find someone who goes, ‘Ok I really like you,’ You go, ‘You like me?’ She’s gorgeous and so sweet. Oh, she’s beautiful.”

Short, Intimate, Memorable

And the Good Will Hunting star reveals their marriage ceremony in Napa Valley, California was simple, intimate and nothing short of memorable – thanks to a pair of pooping doves.

He continues, “It was kind of lovely. It was just a lot of friends. Very quiet. And then the vows, ‘Do you take this woman?’ ‘Yes as often as possible.’ It was just very sweet and basically just very personal.

“At one point they released doves, which was kind of wonderful. The weird thing is, they (the doves) get out (of their cage) and immediately they’re like, OK, seat number four (poops). And people are dodging dove s**t like, ‘No, no!’ One butterfly flew into the frame and one bird just (ate it). But it was gorgeous, a really beautiful day

The Power of Love

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.  . .

“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.

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