Bob Newhart Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

  Bob Newhart

  Children, Fun, Successful

• Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

  Bob Newhart

  Vacation, Comedian, Attention

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

• It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Talking

• I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

  Bob Newhart

  Marriage, Kids, Grandchildren

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

• I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

  Bob Newhart

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

• I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedian, Way, Saws

• Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

  Bob Newhart

  Long, Silence, Doubt

• When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

  Bob Newhart

  Couple, Years, Might

• Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

  Bob Newhart

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

• I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

  Bob Newhart

  Trying, Together, Pieces

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

• I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

  Bob Newhart

  Drama, Character, Aversion

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

• There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughing, Tragedy, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

  Bob Newhart

  Decision, Temptation, Comedian

• The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

  Bob Newhart

  Opportunity, Skills, Giving

• The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

  Bob Newhart

  Play, Discipline, Fascination

• I feel more comfortable in comedy.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedy, Feels, Comfortable

• This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

  Bob Newhart

  Home, Beverly Hills, Comedy

• I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

  Bob Newhart

  Years, Two, Giving

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

• Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

  Bob Newhart

  Careers, Comedy, Wells

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

• Funny is funny is funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedy

• I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

  Bob Newhart

  Humor, Thinking, Confusion

• I don't have a stack of scripts...

  Bob Newhart

  Scripts, Comedy

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

• I'm very open to the up-and-comers.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedy

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

• The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

  Bob Newhart

  Years, Four, Littles

  Interview With Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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