Quotes by Jonathan Winters

About Jonathan Winters:

Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 nominations for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album during his career and winning a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996.
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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.

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

Jonathan Winters

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

Jonathan Winters

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

Jonathan Winters

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.

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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.

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Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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 ...

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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.

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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

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.

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My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

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I know you can be funny without being filthy.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Winters
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian, actor, and artist
  • AliasesJonathan Harshman Winters III
  • BornNovember 11, 1925
  • DiedApril 11, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Artist