Quotes About Don Knotts

#1. I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

Mike Scully

#2. In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

Cesar Romero

#3. Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.

Tim Conway

#4. One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Martin Short

#5. I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Harland Williams

#6. My husband doesn't like to fly. He does fly now because he doesn't want our daughter to grow up thinking he is a Don Knotts character. But when we were first married, he didn't fly.

Tina Fey

#7. Good and gentle creatures do not offer a very stiff resistance, not for long, anyway. (from "A Gentle Creature")

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

#9. I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Don Knotts

#10. When you work with words, words are your work.

Don Knotts

#11. My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

Don Knotts

#12. Nip it, Nip it in the bud.

Don Knotts

#13. We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.

Don Knotts

#14. There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Tom Harkin

#15. The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

Theodore M. Burton

#16. 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

#17. Islamic Paradise Garden," the

Steven Nightingale

#18. Mainly, I thought of Barney 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

#19. I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

Don Knotts

#20. I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Don Knotts

#21. That's right, karate made my whole body a weapon.

Don Knotts

#22. Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

Don Knotts

#23. And I look back. Alex

Lauren Oliver

#24. It is important that you know who you are, where you stand, where you came from, what you have, what you can do, and who is with you.

J. Grant Howard

#25. Do you like the sunset I ordered for you?

Sarah Bird