Jonathan Winters Quotes & Sayings

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.”

“Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.”

“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.”

“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.”

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

“You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.”

“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.”