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Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

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
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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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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 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 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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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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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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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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I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.
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I feel more comfortable in comedy.
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One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.
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Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
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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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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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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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Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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