Tag Archives: Jonathan Winters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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