Bob Newhart

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

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'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.