Bob Newhart Quotes

You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

There's a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people - when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.

It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.

I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.