Newhart Show Quotes

#1. 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

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

Melody Beattie

#3. 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

#4. I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

Rick Springfield

#5. 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

#6. I am sure of nothing except that to believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.

Scott Frost

#7. The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.

Louise Hay

#8. Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

Sergei Yesenin

#9. 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

#10. The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#11. 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

#13. If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won't succeed. We can't pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.

Adam Grant

#14. Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity ... and here I am, reborn.

Witold Gombrowicz

#15. I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

Bob Newhart

#16. My Life's Worst Scenario

It's when people assume that they know you, even without trying to get to know you, and they judge you from my action without knowing the reason behind it...

Lenz

#17. 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

#18. I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

Walt Disney

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

Bob Newhart

#20. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Kenneth Tynan

#21. 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