Top 100 Griffith Quotes
#1. On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.
Positive K
#2. Sorry, but I'd rather sit home eating Vienna sausage straight from the can watching Andy Griffith reruns than be forced to dine with that Oompa-Loompa!
Piper Faust
#3. John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look at Home Education Magazine and its website.
Daniel H. Pink
#4. INTOLERANCE (1916) Griffith's design for this film is to juxtapose fours stories from different periods of history that illustrate 'Love's struggle throughout the ages'.
Steven Jay Schneider
#5. There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
Robert Crais
#6. Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
Spike Lee
#7. My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends.
Suzanne Crough
#8. Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.
Jamel Shabazz
#9. She reflected on her time in Paris and thought how it seemed as if she'd spent half her life drinking wine in bed and covered with contusions. This, it occurred to her, was how it must feel to be Melanie Griffith.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. When Constance Quakenbush smugly asked what she was going to do with her life, now that Jack Griffith was marrying that Laura Lovelorn girl, Viviane answered her with a soda fountain smile and a declaration: I'm going to fly.
Leslye Walton
#11. If EVACC is a sort of ark, Griffith becomes its Noah, though one on extended duty, since already he's been at things a good deal longer than forty days.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#12. I'm going old school. Adult comedy but you can have your kids in the room. Kind of Andy Griffith meets Bill Cosby meets Bob Newhart. Also my character isn't an idiot as all the rest of the sitcoms recently have the dad character like Homer Simpson.
Henry Cho
#13. I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner
every time she ran, I ran.
Wilma Rudolph
#15. You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
Steve Erickson
#16. If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
David Hare
#17. In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.
Richard Corliss
#18. Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
Jean-Luc Godard
#19. Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.'
She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?'
'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby ...
Bret Easton Ellis
#20. Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#21. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#22. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.
Leslye Walton
#23. Letter from Griffith-- "I know it is difficult, but do work harder to control yourself. Mother was beside herself with worry when she found you rolling on the floor laughing over a book you were reading."
The memory brought a curve to Miranda's lips. It had been a very funny book.
Kristi Ann Hunter
#24. I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
Dick Van Dyke
#25. You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
Donna Mills
#26. People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
Tom Shales
#27. You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.
Moby
#28. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
Orson Welles
#29. In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
Rachel Maddow
#30. I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG.
Drake
#31. You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
J. B. Smoove
#32. The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
Chuck Jones
#33. I can't deal with the ears in 'Star Trek.' I only saw the first 'Star Wars' movie, and I don't think I saw an entire 'Star Trek' TV show, and I certainly didn't see the movie. I like 'Andy Griffith' and 'Deadwood.'
Clyde Edgerton
#34. Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
Clay Aiken
#35. In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.
Maud Newton
#36. There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.'
Bill Cosby
#37. I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since ... I will come within a pint of wine.
Richard Steele
#38. Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.
Peyton Reed
#39. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#40. There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.
Melanie Griffith
#41. You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.
Melanie Griffith
#42. I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.
Melanie Griffith
#43. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#44. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Griffith Thomas
#46. Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D.W. Griffith
#47. I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
D.W. Griffith
#49. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
Griffith Edwards
#50. I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.
Melanie Griffith
#51. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.
Mary Griffith
#52. Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith
#54. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
Melanie Griffith
#55. The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#56. She liked time at the edges of things
the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood
where all must pass but none quite belonged.
Nicola Griffith
#58. I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.
Melanie Griffith
#59. Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.
Clay Griffith
#60. The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.
Griffith John
#61. I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
#62. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
Nicola Griffith
#63. We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
William Griffith Wilson
#64. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.
Clark Griffith
#65. I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
Bill Griffith
#66. Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill Griffith
#68. Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D.W. Griffith
#70. I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#71. Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
Andy Griffith
#73. They were connected: the world, her body, her face. Perhaps she should not be asking who she was but, rather, of what she was a part.
Nicola Griffith
#74. No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.
Anastasia Griffith
#75. There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.
Nicola Griffith
#76. But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Bill Griffith
#77. Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.
D.W. Griffith
#78. I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
Andy Griffith
#80. Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.
Nanci Griffith
#81. Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith
#82. I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.
Melanie Griffith
#83. I don't belong to anyone! I'm not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I'm a woman.
Nicola Griffith
#84. I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.
Anastasia Griffith
#85. Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
Saul Griffith
#87. 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.
Andy Griffith
#88. He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
Thomas Griffith
#89. Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.
Thomas B. Griffith
#90. I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
Anastasia Griffith
#91. I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
Melanie Griffith
#92. Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.
Morgan Griffith
#94. I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
#95. It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
Nanci Griffith
#96. People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#97. The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition - our human condition.
Jeremy Griffith
#99. The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.
Leah Griffith
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