Jonathan Winters
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Biography
Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist. He started performing as a stand-up comedian before transitioning his career to acting in film and television.
"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 couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
"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."
"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."
"My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me."
"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."
"If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it."
"If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it."