Quotes by Jonathan Winters

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.

Doctors

Fighting

Kids

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Discipline

Guy

Rebel

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Devil

Inspirational

Pants

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.

Art

School

War

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Crazy

Famous Inspirational

Success

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

Character

Jokes

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

Motivated

Paint

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.

Comedy

Painting

People

I have a photographic memory; I just haven’t developed it yet.

Havens

Memories

Recollection

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.

Dirty

Men

Religious

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Achieving The Impossible

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Alive

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Balls

Boys

Cameras

Cancer

Character

Children

Comedy

Common

Crazy

Devil

Dirty

Discipline

Doctors

Elephants

Famous Inspirational

Fighting

Filthy

Four

Gone

Guy

Hats

Havens

Heart

Home

Inspirational

Inspire

Jokes

Kids

Knows

Life

Marine

May

Memories

Men

Military

Mother

Motivated

Motivational

Needs

Paint

Painting

Pants

People

Possibility

Possible And Impossible

Purpose

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Quotes by Jonathan Winters

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.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

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.

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

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

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

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.

I have a photographic memory; I just haven’t developed it yet.

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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