Quotes by Jonathan Winters

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

“Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And its no longer the sideshow, its the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and were dealing only with the freaks.”

I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it.

If your ship doesnt come in swim out to it.

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.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - its a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - its 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.