Bob Newhart Quotes

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Bob Newhart

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 5, 1929

I don't have a stack of scripts.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky actor.

Bob Newhart

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

Bob Newhart

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

Bob Newhart

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

Bob Newhart

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.

Bob Newhart

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

Bob Newhart

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

I don't watch that much television.

Bob Newhart

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

Bob Newhart

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

Bob Newhart

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bob Newhart

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

Bob Newhart

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.

Bob Newhart