Top 44 Ken Berry Quotes

I get less secure every year.

Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It? It’s a lost art, just plain hoofing, and I’ve never heard of anybody who didnt enjoy doing it or watching it.

What I’d like is to act on film. I’d really like to act.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

There’s no way I can tell if a rock group is good or not!

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.

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

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

Some people think a series like ‘Mayberry’ is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

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

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

Over the years, my goals have changed somewhat.

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 something about a fall that tickles people. I can’t explain why.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s not much call for hoofers, and that’s basically what I am.

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.

Some of the best shows on television are produced by news departments.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I hooked up with Warner Bros, and I was dying to play Ensign Pulver in the ‘Mr. Roberts’ series, and I didn’t get the part. Instead they cast the with Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in ‘F Troop.’

One time I attended a big Hollywood party, and everybody was there Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, George Burns, Barbra Streisand. I walked around with my mouth hanging open, just thrilled that I had been invited!

I was so happy doing ‘F Troop,’ I would have been happy if it had run 20 years.

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.

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

I’ve always called myself ‘Mr. Dull Guy.’

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.

The thing about hoofing is that It’s much more intricate than people realize. Occasionally you see some good hoofing on TV. Bob Hope is very good at the old slide steps. George Burns does a good, old-fashioned sand dance from Vaudeville!

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.