Bob Crane

“My wife kept looking at the Jack Paar show and telling me that's what I should be doing on television. But I kept telling her she was wrong.”

“You've got to feel right in what you do.”

“Working at Disney makes you aware of the family image of the studio. There are no naughty words used on the set like there were on the all-male cast of 'Hogan's Heroes.'”

“It's not unusual for my room to be stacked with newspapers gathered during a trip.”

“If you'll notice, we don't have any real out and out jokes on 'Hogan.' Basically the program is drama.”

“I know that when I've passed the Jim Nabors set at our studio, I call out 'Hi Gomer,' and I can't honestly think of his real name.”

“Hard comedy goes for the jocular. Hard comedy is basic.”

“People keep saying that I'm lucky to be naturally funny, that I don't have to work at it. They are wrong. I work very hard.”

“I had this fantasy. I would be at the Paramount Theater in New York and Louis Prima's drummer falls sick. The theater manager asks, 'Is there a drummer in the house?' I run up on stage and bang instant fame!”

“For a girl to be an actress, she must be like a man, competitive, hard, un-feminine.”

“I don't dig jogging. I've tried, I really have, but I don't get any enjoyment out of jogging.”

“No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.”

“Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.”

“Look at 'Bonanza.' If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you've got a problem.”

“Hogan's' came from left field. It isn't 'McHale's' and it isn't 'Combat.' You can't categorize it.”

“Maybe, realistically, in a career you have only one hit series. Maybe 'Hogan's' was mine.”

“I look at the things that Dick Van Dyke and Danny Kaye do on television, and I think: Maybe I could do that. And I never miss a Jack Lemmon picture.”

“Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.”

“Audiences won't buy an Ozzie Nelson walking and talking around about Rickie's new bicycle.”

“I never would take a role of radio announcer, disc jockey or musician.”