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Ron Howard Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Richie: She said she'd do something desperate.

Ralph: How desperate can you get in a ladies' room?

Richie: Do you know what's in a ladies' room?

Ralph: No, do you?”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 2: Who's Sorry Now?
Tagged: Desperate, ladies' room
“Richie: Arlene, we've only been going together for two weeks. It's not like we're married.

Arlene: Richie, one week is a crush. Two weeks is a commitment.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Tagged: Going Steady, Commitment, Crush, married
“Richie: You know, here we are, two able-bodied men with no money. Why?

Potsie: Because we're lazy?”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: Give the Band a Hand
Tagged: Slackers, Lazy
“We're finally getting out of this turkey town, and now you wanna crawl back into your cell, right? You wanna end up like John? You just can't stay seventeen forever.”
— Steve Bolander, American Graffiti
Tagged: Small Town, seventeen forever
“Richie: We played chess.

Fonzie: You played with her chest?”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: All the Way
Tagged: Chess, chest
“Richie: I don't know that much about Hamlet, Fonzie, but I'll teach you everything I know.

Fonzie: Go.

Richie: All right.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 2: A Star Is Bored
Tagged: Hamlet
“Richie: Burglar, meet my friends, Ralph and Potsie.

Burglar: You need to widen your circle of acquaintances. These are the most useless friends I've ever seen.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 2: The Cunningham Caper
Tagged: Burglars, Weak Friends
“Richie: You make school sound like good fun.

Fonzie: Well, school's got good points. I mean, smoking in the bathroom, cutting classes, showing my tattoo to the chicks.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: Fonzie Drops In
Tagged: School, smoking in the bathroom, cutting class
“Opie Taylor: Pa?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Ope, is this something we can talk about later on?

Opie Taylor: Well, if you could let me have a dime, we wouldn't even have to talk about it.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, Season 4: A Black Day for Mayberry
Tagged: Begging
“Richie: We played chess.

Fonzie: You played with her chest?”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: All the Way
Tagged: Chess, chest, Double Entendre
“Richie Cunningham: All we had was beer in teeny-weeny little glasses.

Howard Cunningham: How many teeny-weeny little glasses did you have?

Richie Cunningham: Seventy-two.

Howard Cunningham: I think it's time for some teeny-weeny cups of coffee.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: Richie's Cup Runneth Over
Tagged: Drinking, Coffee, Teeny-Weeny
“Rose: Opie, dear, I'm marryin' Mr. Pine because I love him.

Opie Taylor: I thought you loved ME.

Rose: I do, Opie.

Opie Taylor: You don't catch me marryin' somebody else.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Marriage, Cheating, Infidelity, Love
“Opie Taylor: What's a soliloquy?

Andy Taylor: Well a soliloquy is where you kind of look away off and kinda talk to yourself.

Opie Taylor: Oh.

Andy Taylor: They used to do that a whole lot back then. You do it today and somebody will take you away.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: A Feud is a Feud
Tagged: Soliloquy, Talking To Yourself
“A sandwich sure tastes better with milk.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: A Feud is a Feud
Tagged: Sandwich, milk
“Richie: Why did you let me kiss you if you didn't want to go steady?

Cindy: Because whenever I study with boys, all they think about is how to kiss me. So, I give them one kiss, and then we can concentrate on the books. It's a study system.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 1: In the Name of Love
Tagged: kiss, studying, tutor
“Opie Taylor: Go on, pa. You gotta fall down and die.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, I'll tell you the truth, son. I just got other things to do. I'm just too blame busy to die right now.

Opie Taylor: Aw, shucks.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: I'll die a little later on if I get the chance, though.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: Runaway Kid
Tagged: Deferred Gratification
“Richie: Now we're gonna do what we came up here to do: neck.

Gloria: Oh, anything you say, Richie.

[They begin to kiss when the alarm clock goes off, signaling that Gloria must go home]

Gloria: Maybe we'll have time for a goodnight kiss at my door.

Richie: The story of my life is kissing at the door.”
— Richie Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 2: Richie Moves Out
Tagged: Kissing, Goodnight Kiss
“Steve Bolander: I thought, maybe before I leave, we could agree that... that seeing other people while I'm away can't possibly hurt, you know.

Laurie Henderson: You mean dating other people?

Steve Bolander: I think it would strengthen our relationship. Then we'd know for sure that we're really in love. Not that there's any doubt.”
— Steve Bolander, American Graffiti
Tagged: Dating, seeing other people, Relationship, Love
“Opie Taylor: [entering the courthouse] Hi. You seen my pa? He's the sheriff.

Bobby Fleet: You mean he's human enough to have kids?

Opie Taylor: Huh?

Bobby Fleet: Never mind. He stepped out for a minute.

Opie Taylor: Oh. [looking at all the fellas] Pa musta rounded up a gang. You look like from the city. Are you a criminal?

Bobby Fleet: According to your pa I am.

Opie Taylor: Pa's never wrong. What crime did you do, criminal?

Bobby Fleet: I didn't do anything. Your old man framed the whole thing—the hick troublemaker. [Offended at this, Opie kicks Bobby in the shin]”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The Guitar Player
Tagged: Criminals, Gang
“Sheriff Andy Taylor: Anybody here know why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace. I now pronounce you man...

Opie Taylor: I know why they shouldn't be married.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Opie, what're you tryin' to do?

Opie Taylor: I'm speakin' now so's I won't have to forever hold my peace.

Deputy Barney Fife: You're not supposed to speak.

Opie Taylor: Then why did he ask?”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Weddings, Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace, Hypocrisy
“Opie Taylor: Can I run away from home?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Uh... you... you want to run away from home? Well, now, uh, if-if-if that's what you got on your mind, well, you-you goin' about it all wrong.

Opie Taylor: I am?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Oh, yeah. You ain't supposed to ask your pa.

Opie Taylor: But you always said I should never go anyplace far without gettin' your permission.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, yeah, I know I did say that, but, uh, see-see, running away from home is a little special. See, what you do in a case like that is first you write a note SAYIN' that you're runnin' away, and then you do it.

Opie Taylor: You mean to tell me that's all there is to it?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: That's all.

Opie Taylor: But I don't know how to write.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: That does make a problem.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Runaway, Running Away From Home
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