52 Quotes by Jonathan Winters

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.