Jonathan Winters Quotes

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• I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
• I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.
• Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus…
• Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
• I know you can be funny without being filthy.
• Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.
• You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.
• I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.
• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
• Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
• Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning -…
• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong.…
• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign…
• I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school…
• I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's…
• God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.
• I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being…
• My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
• My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

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