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Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Oak Park
Illinois
George Robert Newhart
George Robert Bob Newhart
Funny
Comedy

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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. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
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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.
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I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.
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Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.
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Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.
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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
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In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
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I've been a very lucky actor.
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
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I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
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You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
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Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.
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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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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.
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Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
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I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.
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I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.
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Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
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