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Jonathan Winters Quotes

American - Comedian | November 11, 1925 - April 11, 2013

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 Years Radio Successful Show

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Jonathan Winters

Day Every Day Same Paint Anything

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 Car Child Shopping Look Go

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

Business Art School War Painting

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

Jonathan Winters

Jokes Characters

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

Jonathan Winters

Funny You Know Without Being Filthy

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

God Hope People Painting Comedy You

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Jonathan Winters

Comedy Observation Common Paintings

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Jonathan Winters

Saying Picture Doing You Artist See

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Jonathan Winters

Discipline Day Tough Every Day Rebel

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 don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.

Jonathan Winters

God Hope Day People Painting Comedy

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

Moon Airplane Think Remember Hands

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