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"People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words."
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"You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies."
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"At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it."
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"I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team."
"We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves."
"I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it."
"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."
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