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" I know you can be funny without being filthy. "
Jonathan Winters
Know
Without
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" 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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" 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'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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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. "
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" I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. "
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Without
Wait
" You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do. "
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