Bob Newhart Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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• I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Sound

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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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• One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

  Bob Newhart

  Wind, People, Boss

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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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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• Funny is funny is funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedy

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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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• One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedian, Firsts, Shows

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

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• I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

  Bob Newhart

  Indifferent, Portraying, Persons

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• I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughter, Successful, Thinking

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". The Smith Center interview, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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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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• 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

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• I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

  Bob Newhart

  Careers, Long, Done

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• Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

  Bob Newhart

  Challenges, Environment, Continuing

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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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• When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

  Bob Newhart

  Done, Cymbals, Nowhere To Go

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

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• You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Truth, Truth Is, Being Funny

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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