Quotes from Ken Berry

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

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

Over the years, my goals have changed somewhat.

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

I saw a song and dance act at the carnival and decided that's what I wanted to do. I worked on my mother first, she convinced my dad, and I started taking dance lessons at the Maureen Bennett Studio.

Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor - those were my idols. All I ever wanted to be was a motion picture song-and-dance man. I kind of fell into other things. Did walk-ons and bits for years and worked in little theater at night.

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.

I could rob a bank and no one would notice me, but Rock Hudson! He's a movie star.

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 was just a series of accidents that I became an actor. My first job was when a friend called and said he was putting together a song and dance group for the 'Gale Storm Show.' The role also involved a few lines. Then a man's wife, who had seen me in that, recommended me for a job she was doing.

It's harder and harder to find a spot within a day's drive of Los Angeles with enough vacant grass or even sand or dirt to stake a tent on.

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 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 hate variety shows.

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

It's hard to get someone, particularly agents, to tell you the truth.

I love diving and motorcycling!

I've always called myself 'Mr. Dull Guy.'

It really doesn't matter if I work a lot, because most of everything I earn goes to pay alimony.

I know my limitations.

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.