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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
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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I've been a very lucky actor.
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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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I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.
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Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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