A biography for Ken Berryhasn’t been written yet.
“I hate variety shows.”
“I like to get up in the morning, work during the day and go home at night.”
“Sure, if I had a choice I'd really prefer Jackie at home, waiting for me with a hot meal on the table. But I married a show business gal - we met when we were working in the old 'Billy Barnes Revue' and I went into that marriage with my eyes open.”
“I have to admit, if I had my druthers, I'd prefer one camera TV. That's what 'Mayberry R.F.D.' and 'F Troop' were. You make mistakes, you do it over again. Both of those companies were just a great lot of fun to be with.”
“There's not much call for hoofers, and that's basically what I am.”
“I spent every summer as a child at my uncle's farm in Illinois so I know all about gathering eggs and how the hens will peck at you.”
“Work is not my obsession. I like to dabble, and come to think of it that's what I have been doing all my life.”
“It's hard to get past the fact that I'm working with Donald O'Connor and becoming friends with him.”
“True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.”
“I put a lot of money in a coin-operated dry-cleaning place and it keeps losing money and I can't get anybody to buy it. So I keep pouring more money Into it, and into the laundry next door which'my father owns.”
“Over the years, my goals have changed somewhat.”
“I came to Hollywood to be a movie song-and-dance man just at the time those films were going out of style.”
“I love diving and motorcycling!”
“It took me two years to realize I had a good solid hit with 'F Troop'... two years to be convinced I was going to stay on, and then they canceled.”
“To be able to sit in your living room, watch a speech live by the president, and be able to look into his eyes, and make your own decision - that's television.”
“I like to read the classified ads every morning. Just the cars for sale. Love to look at cars for sale, Don't buy them, of course. Just look. But I don't like to talk to people.”
“In all the classic comedies of the old silent movies, the pratfall always got the biggest lauch. Even more than a pie in the face.”
“Some of the best shows on television are produced by news departments.”
“It's hard to get someone, particularly agents, to tell you the truth.”
“I could rob a bank and no one would notice me, but Rock Hudson! He's a movie star.”