A biography for Jim Naborshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.”
“My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.”
“I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.”
“I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.”
“Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.”
“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.”
“I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was smart or lucky or both. I saved my money. I was on TV for 10 years, and then I spent eight more years on the road. Working on the road is where you really can save money if you put your mind to it.”
“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.”