I loved ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful. – Bob Newhart
I don’t have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, ‘Has Bob read ours yet?’ – Bob Newhart
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail. – Bob Newhart
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life. – Bob Newhart
Comedians are never really on vacation because you’re always at attention… that antenna is always out there. – Bob Newhart
The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills. – Bob Newhart
I have no intention of retiring; I can’t imagine not doing stand-up. That’s where I started and where I’ll be. – Bob Newhart
When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, ‘There’s nothing out there for us.’ – Bob Newhart
I have an aversion to laugh tracks – the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel. – Bob Newhart
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
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. – Bob Newhart
‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever. – Bob Newhart
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack’s timing, but I don’t think you can teach timing. It’s something you hear in your head. – Bob Newhart
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. – Bob Newhart
I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I’d be bored, and I would call him. He’d interview me. – Bob Newhart
Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, ‘You really aren’t cut out for accounting.’ – Bob Newhart
The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place. – Bob Newhart
I don’t want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world. – Bob Newhart
People have told me, ‘My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.’ It doesn’t get any better than that. – Bob Newhart
I certainly don’t delude myself that there aren’t certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can’t imagine anything that would bring me more joy. – Bob Newhart
