Andy Griffith Show Quotes:

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Careers, Gone, Andy Griffith Show

George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Careers, Andy Griffith Show, Shows

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

- Clay Aiken

topic: Thinking, North Carolina, Andy Griffith Show

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

topic: Home, Simple, People, Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Awards, Roles, Actors, Andy Griffith Show, Supporting Roles

They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Fun, Acting, Actors, Andy Griffith Show

Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Son, Aunt, Years, Andy Griffith Show, Little House On The Prairie

I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Taken, Texas, Play, Andy Griffith Show, Walt

Once when I was cooking I burned my arm with scalding water. I went to the Emergency Room of the Hospital. When the doctor came in he looked at me and looked at my chart, and looked at me and looked at my chart, then looked at me again and said, "I loved your show!" He told me that when he was doing his internship he would come home every night stressed out, but he would watch a late night rerun of the Andy Griffith Show and relax and fall asleep. He said, "I wouldn't be a doctor, if it wasn't for the Andy Griffith Show".

- Betty Lynn

topic: Fall, Home, Night, Andy Griffith Show, Late Night

One reason [of Andy Griffith Show popularity] is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.

- Betty Lynn

topic: People, Relax, Comedy, Therapeutic, Andy Griffith Show

We didn't have reruns back then, so when the show ended we thought it was over. I'm overwhelmed by how long the show has been popular and by how many people still love it today. I still watch the reruns and just laugh! Here in Mount Airy they show the Andy Griffith Show at 3:30 in the afternoons and they call it "Andy After School", but the show wasn't just for kids, it was for everyone.

- Betty Lynn

topic: School, Kids, Laughing, Andy Griffith Show, After School

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.

- Mark McNairy

topic: Brother, Book, Who I Am, Andy Griffith Show, Spoof

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

topic: Character, Stuff I Like, Classic, Andy Griffith Show

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Lunch, People, Goats, Andy Griffith Show, Loaded