Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of … - Bob Newhart

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I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of being. And we don't see value in it; we think that if you're not doing something all of the time, being very active and producing something, then you're sort of wasting your time.

Bob Newhart

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

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I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

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More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter. ' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure. ' But that's the truth.

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You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

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In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

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I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

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