Feel Quotes

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

Bob Newhart

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Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bob Newhart

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All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

Bob Newhart

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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Bob Newhart

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I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

Bob Newhart

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I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

Bob Newhart

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I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

Bob Newhart

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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Bob Newhart

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People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

Bob Newhart

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There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

Bob Newhart

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I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Bob Newhart

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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

Bob Newhart

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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

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For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Bob Newhart

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When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

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The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

Bob Newhart

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I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

Bob Newhart

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When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'

Bob Newhart

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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Bob Newhart

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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.

Bob Newhart

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One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.

Bob Newhart

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