Don Knotts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
-- Don Knotts

#Kids #Thinking #Looks
When you work with words, words are your work.
-- Don Knotts
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
-- Don Knotts

#Children #Atheism #Unhappy
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
-- Don Knotts

#Idols #Timing #Masters
I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.
-- Don Knotts

#Thinking #Training #Use
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.
-- Don Knotts

#Thinking #Broadway #Enough
That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.
-- Don Knotts

#Body #Weapons #Karate
I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.
-- Don Knotts

#Loser #Prepared #Knows

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Don Knotts famous quotes

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