Tim Conway Quotes (23 Quotes)

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.

Instantly, there was a click. He's the best straight man. There was not a lot of editing or a laugh track, so we would either get laughs or you would hear the air conditioner.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

We have encountered a situation that wasn't expected in the work plan (for this site). We have asked GE to evaluate it.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

Every show wants to be like Friends, and so you've got these shows that literally are so much alike you could stack them on top of each other.

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.

This habitat is ideal for them. There's enough food, shelter and water to sustain a natural population.

Whoa, is this going to hurt. Look at that picture.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.

I don't see anything wrong with what's going on in this country today, so I don't really think much of it. It's not something I watch.

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.