“Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.”

When I was nine, I played the demon king in “Cinderella” and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

I’d made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.

I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

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.