Bob Newhart Quotes

• All I can say about life is, ‘Oh God, enjoy it!’

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in God, Life

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music

• Comedians are never really on vacation because you’re always at attention… that antenna is always out there.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vacation

• I don’t have a stack of scripts.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scripts

• Funny is funny is funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Funny

• I don’t know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there’s a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That’s kind of regrettable.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today

• I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That’s the only way you learn how to do it.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Influenced

• Don’t be silly and don’t waste your time.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Silly

• I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Longevity

• I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don’t rush into adulthood, it isn’t all that much fun.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Child

• I’ve been a very lucky actor.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky

• I’m very open to the up-and-comers.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Open

• All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Way

• It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don’t work that way. There was a temptation in the early ’70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Decision, Work

• This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I’m not about to screw with it now.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Stammer

• 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.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

• Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn’t afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Broadway

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Harder

Bob Newhart (33)

Birth:	5th September, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Bob Newhart was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He enrolled at Loyola University of Chicago from which he graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in business management. After the war, Newhart got a job as an accountant for United States Gypsum. His 1960 comedy album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, went straight to number one on the charts, beating Elvis Presley and the cast album of The Sound of Music. Button Down Mind received the 1961 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Newhart's success in stand-up led to his own NBC variety show in 1961, The Bob Newhart Show. In 2013 he also appeared on Committed and appeared in an episode of the sixth season of The Big Bang Theory, for which he was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award, and subsequent episodes of its seventh season.

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