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

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma. — Fanny Fern

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

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

Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else for your most basic needs? And to not get so damn attached to stuff that you'd rather demean yourself than live without it? — Alyson Noel

Jesus, Shep. I told you ... "
"I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls."
"All Trent?"
"One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous. — Jamie McGuire

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

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths. — Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps success in the future will depend partly on our ability to generate cheap power, but I think it will depend to a greater extent on our ability to resist a technological formula that is sterile: peas without pageantry, corn without coon, knowledge without wisdom, kitchens without a warm stove. There is more to these rocks than uranium; there is the lichen on the rock, the smell of the fern whose feet are upon the rock, the view from the rock. — E.B. White

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 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

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness. — Rachel Zoe

I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may — Louisa May Alcott

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

Then, Aidan leaned down and whispered, "I guess we're all a little broken, aren't we, doll? — Stormy Smith

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