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You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.
Bob Newhart
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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
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Stand-Up Comedian
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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 feel more comfortable in comedy.
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I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.
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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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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 didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf I could just play an elf.
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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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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.
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
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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've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
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I've been a very lucky actor.
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I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.
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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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But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
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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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