Words matter. These are the best Bob Crane Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had an idea that I wanted show which would keep me happy for five years. I tried to figure how I’d feel if I had to do the part for five years. This one ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ filled the bill.
When I was on KNX I did a lot of television and motion pictures and as you know I did the ‘Donna Reed Show’ for two years while I was still a DJ on KNX. In fact when I started ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ I was still doing my daily show on KNX.
I had this fantasy. I would be at the Paramount Theater in New York and Louis Prima’s drummer falls sick. The theater manager asks, ‘Is there a drummer in the house?’ I run up on stage and bang instant fame!
After the fifth show as Hogan, my radio appearances had shriveled down to two a week Monday and Friday. One afternoon I stood before the camera, and I was so tired I couldn’t remember a line. The next morning I said goodbye to radio or a while.
I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn’t be right for me.
I had to talk for a long time to explain to the producer why I wasn’t right for ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies.’ I also had to explain why I didn’t want to do ‘My Living Doll’ before Robert Cummings was considered for the role.
People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it’s over they think we just retire to green pastures. Well, it ain’t so.
Wit is a comic’s defense weapon.
The public thinks there is a lot of money in ‘residuals,’ but it really isn’t that good.
You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.
I never would take a role of radio announcer, disc jockey or musician.
Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there’s not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.
I try to play Hogan in an off-hand throwing lines way.
If you’ll notice, we don’t have any real out and out jokes on ‘Hogan.’ Basically the program is drama.
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.
I liked Art Linkletter’s way of conducting an interview while still keeping it light and I even admired Jack Bailey, host of ‘Queen for a Day.’ Particularly fascinating was how he could listen to all those awful tales of woe, then smile and slap someone on the back and declare her Queen for a Day.
Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What’s wrong with that?
I don’t dig jogging. I’ve tried, I really have, but I don’t get any enjoyment out of jogging.
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.
People keep saying that I’m lucky to be naturally funny, that I don’t have to work at it. They are wrong. I work very hard.
I don’t go for the wild stuff like bell-bottoms.
The day of the ‘Partridge Family’ type of show and the ‘Brady Bunch’ is long gone. The old ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ days are over.
In high school my mind wandered all the time.
Look at ‘Bonanza.’ If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you’ve got a problem.
Hard comedy goes for the jocular. Hard comedy is basic.
It’s not unusual for my room to be stacked with newspapers gathered during a trip.
I don’t want to sound conceited, but people were intrigued with me and thought I was crazy and the word got around about this wacky disc jockey who could do 10 commercials in 10 minutes – what I did was make fun of the commercials.
I can’t sit still. It drives me up the wall.
They asked me to test for ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,’ but I didn’t want any part of that scene. After all, I get enough of that family thing at home.
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.
I work best under pressure. At home I look at a script for about 10 minutes then I get distracted bymy records, or my tape, or my videotape machine, or Scotty.
Hogan’s’ came from left field. It isn’t ‘McHale’s’ and it isn’t ‘Combat.’ You can’t categorize it.
Maybe, realistically, in a career you have only one hit series. Maybe ‘Hogan’s’ was mine.
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 always had acting in the back of my mind.
Whenever anyone asks me what I did in the service, I just tell him I was a member of the famed ‘Remington Raiders.’
Someone like Van Johnson can spend 52 weeks a year on the road because he doesn’t have a family.
People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They’re afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.
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.’
Well, I take my drums everywhere I go so I can play them for relaxation.
I made it a point to study the people in the business I admired most.
I enjoy life. That doesn’t mean I don’t care.
Once I started tossing quips at Shelley Berman and he got more and more incensed. Finally, during a commercial, he exploded, ‘I didn’t come here to be a straight man,’ and walked out.
When I blow a line at Disney I say, ‘Oh fudge,’ instead of what is really on mind.
