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I've been a very lucky actor.

Bob Newhart

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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
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Voice Actor
Oak Park
Illinois
George Robert Newhart
George Robert Bob Newhart
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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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The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.
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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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I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf I could just play an elf.
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
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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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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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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 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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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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I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
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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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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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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
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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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But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
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The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
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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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