Bob Newhart Quotes
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A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
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Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.
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I don't have a stack of scripts.
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I remember seeing a movie with Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney where they were husband and wife, and they got in bed, and he had on polka-dot pajamas and she had on striped pajamas, and when they got up the next morning he had on the striped pajamas and she had the polka dot pajamas, and that was considered racy at that time!
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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
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There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.
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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.'
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I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
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The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
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I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
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Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'
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All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
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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.
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Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
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Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
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Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
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No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.
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I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'
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I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
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I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'
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I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.
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I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.
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I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?