Jonathan Winters

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

— Jonathan Winters

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

— Jonathan Winters

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be…

— Jonathan Winters

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in…

— Jonathan Winters

When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you…

— Jonathan Winters

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

— Jonathan Winters

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or…

— Jonathan Winters

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

— Jonathan Winters

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God…

— Jonathan Winters

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

— Jonathan Winters

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

— Jonathan Winters

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

— Jonathan Winters

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no…

— Jonathan Winters

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and…

— Jonathan Winters

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

— Jonathan Winters

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

— Jonathan Winters

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

— Jonathan Winters

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled…

— Jonathan Winters

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

— Jonathan Winters

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had…

— Jonathan Winters

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.”

— Jonathan Winters

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands…

— Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

— Jonathan Winters

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

— Jonathan Winters