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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
Tags: your, people, you, work

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I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.
— Bob Newhart
Tags: my-life, myself, work, life
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
Tags: see, television, go, decision
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
— Bob Newhart
Tags: than, letters, trouble, think
Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'
— Bob Newhart
Tags: forget, sometimes, you, me
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
— Bob Newhart
Tags: more, late, sea, change
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