The 84+ 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.

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.

Doormen Are Kind Of Invisible, People Don't Know Their Names. They Just Say, Thank You, Or Good Morning. I'd Never Thought About Doormen Before. They're A Vanishing Breed. More Electronic Doors Are Being Introduced.

I Don't Have A Show Anymore. I Don't Have A Check Coming In Every Week. This Is Important To Me, I Got To Score A Million Tonight Or It Could All Be Over.

You Do A Clean Show And It's Over And The Audience Have Enjoyed Themselves And You've Enjoyed Yourself, And You Haven't Had To Resort To Shock.

I Gave Up Accounting. I Went In For About Six Months Writing Ad Copy. I Was Fired From That, And Then Another Guy And I Did A Kind Of Poor Man's Bob And Ray Kind Of Syndicated Radio Show. Then I Decided To Stick It Out And See What Happened. I'd Give It A Year, A Year Became Two Years, And Then Two Years Became Three Years, And Then Along Came The Record Album.

I Couldn't Play Off People That I Don't Personally Like.

Well, My Career Choice Made A Difference Because I Never Would Have Met My Wife, Jenny. I Met Her Through Comedian Buddy Hackett. He Set Us Up On A Blind Date And Then We Got Married.

You May Not Think I'm A Sex Symbol, But I Became A Father At The Age Of 48. Now Young People Think Of Me As A Mini-folk Hero Because It's Difficult For Them To Believe A Man Of My Age Is Sexually Active.

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.

I Think There's A Part, Just A Part Of Comedians, That Is Still Childlike.

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.