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Top 25 Jonathan Winters Quotes (2025 Update)

Jonathan Winters Quote: “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”

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

— Jonathan Winters

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Jonathan Winters Quote: “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”

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

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I may not be playing with a full deck but I don’t need a full deck. I have four aces.”

3. “I may not be playing with a full deck but I don’t need a full deck. I have four aces.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.”

4. “God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I have a photographic memory; I just haven’t developed it yet.”

5. “I have a photographic memory; I just haven’t developed it yet.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.”

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

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “You’ve got to be an observer. And you’ve got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.”

7. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I know you can be funny without being filthy.”

8. “I know you can be funny without being filthy.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “Throughout my life, I’ve been gratified that I’ve been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.”

9. “Throughout my life, I’ve been gratified that I’ve been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I’ve always been proud of being a Marine. I won’t hesitate to defend the Corps.”

10. “I’ve always been proud of being a Marine. I won’t hesitate to defend the Corps.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I don’t do jokes. The characters are my jokes.”

13. “I don’t do jokes. The characters are my jokes.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I’m from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.”

14. “I’m from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.”

20. “My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “You come into this world, not knowing who you are, and sometimes, if you live long enough, you go out not knowing who you are.”

23. “You come into this world, not knowing who you are, and sometimes, if you live long enough, you go out not knowing who you are.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “I don’t paint every day. I’m not that motivated. I don’t do anything the same every day.”

24. “I don’t paint every day. I’m not that motivated. I don’t do anything the same every day.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Jonathan Winters Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.”

27. “Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “My mother had a radio show – a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.”

28. “My mother had a radio show – a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.”

— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters Quote: “Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.”

29. “Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.”

— Jonathan Winters

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