Quotes from Bob Crane

I'd like to do movies. The kind of comedies Jack Lemmon does.

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.

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

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

I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.

I'm not slim and trim like Johnny Carson.

The way I look at it, you've got to quit your TV series before they'll consider you in movies.

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.'

I like to do an occasional guest spot, but it seems that everybody wants me to go the host route. ABC, NBC, CBS and most of the independents have talked to me about it - Carson himself once asked me if I was interested and added he wouldn't be there forever. But I wouldn't do it for all the money in the world.

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

Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there's not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.

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

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.

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

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.

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

I turned down more offers to be Jack Paar or Johnny Carson or Steve Allen before the people on the 'Donna Reed Show' gave me a chance to earn while I learned.

I was doing a show in Bridgeport, Conn., and getting offers for more money from Boston and other cities in the east. But I figured I would hold out for New York. Then one day, I got a call out of the blue from Hollywood from KNX.

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run, you might strike out. It's either a belly laugh or it's no go and no show.

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

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.

Someone like Van Johnson can spend 52 weeks a year on the road because he doesn't have a family.

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.

I made it a point to study the people in the business I admired most.