Author: Jonathan Winters

Quotes

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

- Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

- Jonathan Winters

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

- Jonathan Winters

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

- Jonathan Winters

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

- Jonathan Winters

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

- Jonathan Winters

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

- Jonathan Winters

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

- Jonathan Winters

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