I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

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.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

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.

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

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

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

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want... I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless." - Adrian Ivashkov

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.