The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
Bob NewhartI think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.
Bob NewhartIn 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.
Bob NewhartWell, if youโre a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?
Bob Newhart