"I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape."

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Source : Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

Andy Griffith

#Play Quotes #Episodes Quotes #Mayberry Quotes

“You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.”
“It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.”
“We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."”
“This lady is not for turning.”
“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”
“Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.”
“We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.”

Source : Gary Taubes (2010). “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It”, p.99, Anchor
“What has no shadow has no strength to live.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz, “Faith”

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