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This stammer got me a house in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
BOB NEWHART, attributed, 1001 Funniest Things Ever Said
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.
BOB NEWHART, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
Comedians are never really on vacation because you’re always at attention … that antenna is always out there.
BOB NEWHART, American Masters interview, Jul. 20, 2005
The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.
BOB NEWHART, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
BOB NEWHART, attributed, 1001 Funniest Things Ever Said
Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
BOB NEWHART, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
BOB NEWHART, attributed, Standup Comedian: The Secret and Beyond
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