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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
American Comedian
Born: Nov 11, 1925
Died: Apr 11, 2013
Comedy Day Man People War You
Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. Jonathan Winters
Out Come Ship Your Swim
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 Food Man Woman Heart Sense Of Humor Fear Cancer Problems Humor Sense Poisoning Most Well Terrible Without Disease Anybody Should
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
Love You Blame Guy Direction Writers Got Camera Sink Improvisation Either Swim
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
Time You People Take Observer Talk Got Listen Watch
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me. Jonathan Winters
Sad Funny Me Strange People Mother Father Mother And Father Tried Always Were Very Which
I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes. Jonathan Winters
Jokes Characters
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 Type Station About Had Years Very Gal Barbara Successful Show Radio Radio Station
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 Comedy Become Painting Older Kid Pretty Had Part Most Ball Doing Up Get Intended Ended Done Just Much
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
War Art Business School Comedy Three Before Painting Took Enrolled Out Fact Dayton Well Doing Came Years Began Art School Ohio In Fact Hold Then Show Show Business Painted Started
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
Hope God Day You Every Day People Comedy Painting Every Out Find Minute Slower Some Understand Verbally Motivated Go Than Where Process Much Mile Paint

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