American - Actor | June 12, 1930 - November 30, 2017
I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
Jim Nabors
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Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't want to see bad in anybody; you could never get him mad.
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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
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I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.
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Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.
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People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.
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It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me.
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I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.
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I don't like the pressure of TV.
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In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.
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Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.
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It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.
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