42 Quotes by Andy Griffith

I didn't have the courage to go join them,

Well, do a good day’s work and act like somebody.

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he’s getting might really be fear. So I don’t carry a gun because I don’t want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I’d rather they respect me.

You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

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.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God.

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.

I’m not really wise. But I can be cranky.