Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Harshman Winters IIIwas an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 nominations for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album during his career and winning a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth11 November 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I know you can be funny without being filthy.
Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.
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 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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.