Quotes About 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. 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

#8. Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best.

Kim Wayans

#9. Death! I had not thought Death had undone so many

T. S. Eliot

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

Don Knotts

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

Don Knotts

#12. Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can't get that right, don't call it Scrum, OK?

Ron Jeffries

#13. A lot of the time it feels like ... music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Marcus Mumford

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

Don Knotts

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

Don Knotts

#16. I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture, Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.

Katie MacAlister

#17. Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Haruki Murakami

#18. I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

Nate Ruess

#19. Miracles do not happen.

Matthew Arnold

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

Jake Knotts

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

Don Knotts

#24. Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Joyce Meyer

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

Don Knotts

#26. Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Marlene Dietrich

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

Don Knotts

#28. 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