Jonathan Winters Quotes

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I don't make any rules.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

I'm not a fan of routine.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

The less routine the more life.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.