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I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.
Jonathan Winters
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Jonathan Winters
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 11
Died: 2013
Died: April 11
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Jonathan Harshman Winters III
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I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
Jonathan Winters
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
Jonathan Winters
When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.
Jonathan Winters
I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.
Jonathan Winters
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
Jonathan Winters
You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.
Jonathan Winters
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.
Jonathan Winters
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Jonathan Winters
Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.
Jonathan Winters
I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.
Jonathan Winters
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
Jonathan Winters
God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.
Jonathan Winters
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters
I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.
Jonathan Winters
