Bob Newhart Show Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television. — Bob Newhart

I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW — Melody Beattie

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.' — Bob Newhart

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear. — Bob Newhart

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever. — Bob Newhart

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock. — Bob Newhart

I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album. — Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line. — Bob Newhart

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing. — Bob Newhart

I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over. — Bob Newhart

I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience. — Bob Newhart

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie. — Bob Newhart