Bob Newhart Quotes

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Bob Newhart

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 5, 1929

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.

Bob Newhart

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

Bob Newhart

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

Bob Newhart

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

Bob Newhart

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Bob Newhart

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

Bob Newhart

The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

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.

Bob Newhart

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

Bob Newhart

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

Bob Newhart

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Bob Newhart

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

Bob Newhart

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

Bob Newhart

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Bob Newhart

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

Bob Newhart

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

Bob Newhart

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.

Bob Newhart