Bob Newhart Quotes

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• I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.
• I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
• Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his…
• I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster…
• People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments…
• 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…
• 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…
• But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
• 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…
• I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
• I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'
• 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…
• I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing.…
• I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
• Funny is funny is funny.
• I don't have a stack of scripts.
• I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
• I've been a very lucky actor.
• 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.…
• 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…

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