Top 118 Quotes by Bob Newhart

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

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.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.