Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffithwas an American actor, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer. He was a Tony Award nominee for two roles, and gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowdbefore he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead character in the situation comedy, The Andy Griffith Show, and in the legal drama, Matlock...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1926
CityMount Airy, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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 sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
Hymns are companions for life travelers.
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.
Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
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 firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
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.
I didn't have the courage to go join them,
Oh, oh, I guess we're capable all right. But somehow or another it just doesn't come as natural to us as it does to you.
It's time for me to pass this on to you folks,
At first I was supposed to be the funny central figure, ... But with that format the show might have lasted about four weeks. The way it worked out is, the other people say the funny lines and my character looks on as an observer.