Words matter. These are the best Jim Nabors Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One thing I’ve learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.
I could go on all night about my wonderful experiences.
If I can’t afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don’t want to have it.
When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.
I don’t like the pressure of TV.
I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I’m almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.
An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, ‘How has success changed you?’ It’s a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
Let’s face it: dancing isn’t one of my strong points.
I’m very happy that I’ve had a partner of 38 years, and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I’m just very happy.
I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.
Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They look at me like an old friend.
Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.
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.
I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.
No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.
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.
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.
I’m a farmer! We have a farm that’s part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.
Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
After I sang ‘Back Home In Indiana’ the first time, I became a Hoosier.
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.
It’s always good to be home.
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.
I really never watched myself on TV.
