Bob Newhart Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention ... that antenna is always out there.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.
I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.
You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.
I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.
There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.
You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.