I’m not a classically trained actor. I’m not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that. Bob Newhart Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn’t feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I’m a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn’t mean they should vote for the person I like. That’s why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements. Bob Newhart Read Quote
Sometimes you forget you’re famous. You wonder, ‘Why is that person staring at me?’ Bob Newhart Read Quote
The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever. Bob Newhart Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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.’ Bob Newhart Read Quote
