"When you're going for a joke, you're stuck……" — Bob Newhart
"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."
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63 Quotes by Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart has 63 quotes on this site.
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I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood…
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I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back…
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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world…
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four…
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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it…
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But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
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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…
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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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…
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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…
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