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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
Bob Newhart
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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
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Oak Park
Illinois
George Robert Newhart
George Robert Bob Newhart
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More quotes by Bob Newhart
I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
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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.
Bob Newhart
I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf I could just play an elf.
Bob Newhart
Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
Bob Newhart
You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
Bob Newhart
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart
I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
Bob Newhart
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
Bob Newhart
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
Bob Newhart
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.
Bob Newhart
I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.
Bob Newhart
I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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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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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
Bob Newhart
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.
Bob Newhart
The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
Bob Newhart
Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.
Bob Newhart
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.
Bob Newhart
All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
Bob Newhart
