230 Quotes by Bob Newhart

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf; I could just play an elf.

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.