Top 23 Quotes by Jonathan Winters

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

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 was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

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.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

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

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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.