Bob Newhart Quotes - Page 2

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• More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughter, People, Answers

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• 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.

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• I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

  Bob Newhart

  Leadership, Sports, Fake

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• 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

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• In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

  Bob Newhart

  Father, Done, World

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.

  Bob Newhart

  Country, Laughter, Gay

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• Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

  Bob Newhart

  Want, Weapons, Ifs

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

  Bob Newhart

  Sometimes, Wonder, Forget You

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

  Bob Newhart

  Speed, Amusing, Delivery

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

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

  Bob Newhart

  Men, Emotional, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

  Bob Newhart

  Numbers, Routine, Paper

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• 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

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• Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

  Bob Newhart

  Silly, Waste, Being Silly

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

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• 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.

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• The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

  Bob Newhart

  People, Wish, Giants

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

  Bob Newhart

  Jobs, Fun, Comedian

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• I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

  Bob Newhart

  Indifferent, Portraying, Persons

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• 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.

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• Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

  Bob Newhart

  Pigs, Television, Bulls

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

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• As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

  Bob Newhart

  Actors, Want, Faces

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• The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

  Bob Newhart

  Men, People, Telephones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

  Bob Newhart

  Winning, Should Have, Sticks

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• I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Comedian, Lines

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

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• 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.

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