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 Read Quote
I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Cybil.’ Bob Newhart Read Quote
You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn’t work. You never presume anything. Bob Newhart Read Quote
I’ve always said people say on a dramatic show, ‘I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.’ In comedy, the best thing you can say is, ‘I think it’s funny.’ Bob Newhart Read Quote
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and ’60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware. Bob Newhart Read Quote
It’s kind of hard coming from ‘Saturday Night Live,’ which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie. Bob Newhart Read Quote
I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there’s such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don’t act like, ‘Oh boy, I’m somebody.’ They’ll slap you down. Bob Newhart Read Quote
I don’t think too much about age. Maybe if you’re hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don’t. Bob Newhart Read Quote
