Top 30 Barney Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Barney Quotes from famous people such as Neil Patrick Harris, Barry McGuigan, Alvin Lee, Betty Hill, Nouriel Roubini, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics,

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
Neil Patrick Harris
Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Barry McGuigan
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all – Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee
I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then… while I was single… Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
Betty Hill
I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature – things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest.
Nouriel Roubini
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Chellie Pingree
My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obsessed with Barney. Barney was actually my first crush… He’s, like, literally better than all the guys in the whole world.
Gigi Hadid
I met Harrison Ford at Barney’s Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
Eve Babitz
Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney… all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.
James P. Gorman
‘Barney Miller’ was a lot of fun. I’m very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most – a lot of people on that cast – I really liked.
James Cromwell
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on ‘Barney’, but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that’s a good thing!
Selena Gomez
I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey and Barney the guard dog, geese, a duckling that followed my mum around and used to sit in the washing up bowl.
Steve Backshall
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
Martin Short
I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market – my dad was a financial adviser – and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.
Jimmy O. Yang
The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called ‘The Dogs That Ate Detroit.’ It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.
Les Claypool
My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
Bobbie Ann Mason
I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.
John Abercrombie
Im afraid that when it comes to the Christian life, and especially the issue of assurance, too many of us adopt the Barney Fife approach. That is, we let the enemy bully us into believing that were only safe as long as were wearing our Christian ‘uniform.’
Tony Evans
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill
By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.
Betty Hill
I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney’s burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.
Jessica Biel
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.
Paul O’Grady
The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He’s got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
Jeff Foxworthy
They came out over the highway and they stopped and that’s when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he’d been in the military in World War Two, he’s puzzled.
Betty Hill
I don’t know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset.
Betty Hill
You can’t TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you’ve just got to watch Don as Barney. That’s why I put Don in several of my movies.
Tim Conway
From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO.
Betty Hill
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they’re thinking, if they’re happy or sad. That’s what I tried to do with Barney.
Don Knotts
The thing about New York is it’s like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores – Barney’s, Bloomingdales and all that stuff – but I like the little stores.
Bryan Greenberg
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Al Franken