Bob Newhart Quotes
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
-
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
-
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
-
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
-
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
-
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
-
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
-
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
-
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
-
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
-
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
-
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
-
Panic is a horrible thing.
-
Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
-
I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
-
The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
-
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
-
The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
-
I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.
-
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
-
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
