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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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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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I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
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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 am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
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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'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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Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.
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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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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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I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
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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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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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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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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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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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
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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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