Jonathan Winters Quotes

• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jonathan Winters

  Success, Crazy, Famous Inspirational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

  Jonathan Winters

  Memories, Recollection, Havens

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• 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

  War, Cancer, Heart

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

  Jonathan Winters

  Needs, Four, May

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

  Jonathan Winters

  Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible, Possibility

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• God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Devil, Pants

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• Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

  Jonathan Winters

  Elephants, Purpose, Gone

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• I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

  Jonathan Winters

  Military, Marine, Usmc

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• Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

  Jonathan Winters

  Children, Inspire, Alive

  Jonathan Winters (1987). “Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual”, Random House Incorporated

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• When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.

  Jonathan Winters

  Hats, Knows, Who You Are

  "Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I know you can be funny without being filthy.

  Jonathan Winters

  Filthy, Knows

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• 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

  People, Watches, Take Time

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• I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

  Jonathan Winters

  Home, Unusual

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• I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

  Jonathan Winters

  Writing, Kids, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Shopping

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• Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

  Jonathan Winters

  Discipline, Guy, Rebel

  "Jonathan Winters Dead: 'Mork and Mindy' Star Dies At Age 87" by the Associated Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

  Jonathan Winters

  Guy, Swim, Cameras

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• 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

  Religious, Dirty, Men

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• I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

  Jonathan Winters

  Art, War, School

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• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Fighting, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

  Jonathan Winters

  Men, Thinking, Boys

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• I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

  Jonathan Winters

  Character, Jokes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

  Jonathan Winters

  Mother, Successful, Years

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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