Bob Newhart

For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.

— Bob Newhart

I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

— Bob Newhart

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

— Bob Newhart

I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf; I could just play an elf.

— Bob Newhart

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

— Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

— Bob Newhart

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

— Bob Newhart

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

— Bob Newhart

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But…

— Bob Newhart

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres…

— Bob Newhart

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

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

— Bob Newhart

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something…

— Bob Newhart

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more…

— Bob Newhart

I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got…

— Bob Newhart

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

— Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian,…

— Bob Newhart

When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley…

— Bob Newhart

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder…

— Bob Newhart

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown.…

— Bob Newhart

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are…

— Bob Newhart

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're…

— Bob Newhart

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things…

— Bob Newhart

Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do…

— Bob Newhart

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

— Bob Newhart

A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

— Bob Newhart

If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.

— Bob Newhart

I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.

— Bob Newhart

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

— Bob Newhart

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

— Bob Newhart

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

— Bob Newhart

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

— Bob Newhart

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

— Bob Newhart

Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.

— Bob Newhart

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

— Bob Newhart

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

— Bob Newhart

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

— Bob Newhart

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

— Bob Newhart

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to…

— Bob Newhart

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last…

— Bob Newhart