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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
Comedy
Funny

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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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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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I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.
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I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf I could just play an elf.
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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.
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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
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Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
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The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.
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I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
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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 think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.
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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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I've been a very lucky actor.
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One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.
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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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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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