I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet. Jonathan Winters More Quotes by Jonathan Winters More Quotes From Jonathan Winters 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. Jonathan Winters cancer heart war I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. Jonathan Winters usmc marine military I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters famous-inspirational crazy success 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. Jonathan Winters airplane kids thinking If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. Jonathan Winters motivational inspirational life I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces. Jonathan Winters four may needs Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks. Jonathan Winters elephants purpose gone God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants. Jonathan Winters pants devil inspirational Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. Jonathan Winters possible-and-impossible achieving-the-impossible possibility Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others. Jonathan Winters alive inspire children When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed. Jonathan Winters hats who-you-are knows I know you can be funny without being filthy. Jonathan Winters filthy knows 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. Jonathan Winters doctors fighting kids 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. Jonathan Winters war art school 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. Jonathan Winters balls writing kids 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. Jonathan Winters religious men dirty You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do. Jonathan Winters take-time watches people I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping. Jonathan Winters shopping mother children I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys. Jonathan Winters men boys thinking I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual. Jonathan Winters unusual home
