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

~Bob Newhart

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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

Topics: Bob Changing Could Decision Go Left See Show Tastes Television Wanted Were Which Cbs

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I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.

~Bob Newhart

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Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.

~Bob Newhart

Topics: Forehead Gun He His Joke Martin Put Tell You

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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

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When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'

~Bob Newhart

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

~Bob Newhart

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I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

~Bob Newhart

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Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

~Bob Newhart

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The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

~Bob Newhart

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: September 5th, 1929

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