(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Robin Williams can be “very weepy” and often has to fight his sentimental tendencies.

The 59-year-old actor starred in a series of emotional dramas in the late 1990s, including Patch Adams, What Dreams May Come and Bicentennial Man. The movies enjoyed varying degrees of success at the box office, but Robin was wildly criticised for being too “schmaltzy”.

He insists he didn’t choose a series of poignant roles in a row deliberately, but admits he is a “sentimental” person who often has to consciously battle his emotions.

“I don’t seek out sentimental characters. I think they just came my way and I inhabited them,” Robin explained to Total Film magazine. “Am I sentimental? Yeah, I think I can be. I can be very, ‘Oh look, a kitten!’

“You kind of go, ‘Why are you that weepy?’ and sometimes you have to go, ‘Fight it! Don’t go weepy f**ker!’ I think that’s where you have to look at something and go, ‘Hmm, did I go too far?’” (C) Cover Media