Ken Berry

“A lot of times I'll be playing roles for which I'm too long in the tooth, but people who go see musicals don't seem to worry too much about that.”

“I grew up loving movie musicals and Idolizing Fred Astalre. I never worked with Fred but I met him once at a pool hall in Van Nuys.”

“I get less secure every year.”

“If I try to impress a room-ful of guests by calling my answering service to see if there are any messages, they never understand my name. They think I am saying Kim Barry, and I have to repeat my name over and over.”

“There's something about a fall that tickles people. I can't explain why.”

“I wish I owned a bunch of farm land. I'd love to have fields full of grain.”

“It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.”

“I was so happy doing 'F Troop,' I would have been happy if it had run 20 years.”

“I lost a lot of jobs because I looked too much like Tom Selleck... or Robert Redford.”

“I'm the last of the song and dance men.”

“It's very difficult for me to explain myself. I used to park blocks away from NBC when I went to work there so I wouldn't have to tell the gate-man who I was. He'd always repeat 'Who?' And I'd have to go through who I was again and where I was working. So I'd just park on the street and find a fence I could climb over.”

“I used to see movies where they'd put on a play in a barn, but I've never played one.”

“Mv wife opened a gift shop and I had a cleaning plant. We both lost money on them. I guess we'll stick to acting.”

“I like to sit in front of the fire at night, sip a beer and think.”

“When 'Mama's Family' was canceled, I was stunned that the phone didn't ring anymore.”

“I hate to work with another performer who reads cards. The most guilty are the people who do only a few specials a year. You'd think with so few shows they could leam the lines.”

“I like getting up when everyone else does and going home when everyone else does.”

“I love TV series work almost to the exclusion of anything else.”

“I no longer have aspirations to be a superstar or a famous dancer. In fact, I've got a rehearsal hall down in the basement of my house and I never even go down there to practice my dancing at all.”

“I never had a hobby in my whole life until I wag 35. Then I discovered motorcycles, and they've now become almost a passion.”