Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Crane

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Last updated on November 4, 2024.

Robert Edward Crane was an American actor, drummer, radio personality, and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS situation comedy Hogan's Heroes.

American - Actor | July 13, 1928 - June 29, 1978

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

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

You know what they say: You go on the road and you're out of the business. Out of sight, out of mind. I can't afford that sort of thing.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

I really always wanted to be an actor, I guess, but I did enjoy being a disc jockey here in Los Angeles.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

For a girl to be an actress, she must be like a man, competitive, hard, un-feminine.

Bob Crane

If someone's winning an argument wih me, I throw a funny line at him and run.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

Hogan's' came from left field. It isn't 'McHale's' and it isn't 'Combat.' You can't categorize it.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

I can't sit still. It drives me up the wall.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

Wit is a comic's defense weapon.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

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!

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

The public thinks there is a lot of money in 'residuals,' but it really isn't that good.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

Actually, Hogan is an extension of what I used to do on radio.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

Believe it or not, Jack Lemmon was my inspiration. I saw him in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Stratford theater. I was just 21 or 22 at the time and I thought some day I would like to be an actor.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

Hard comedy goes for the jocular. Hard comedy is basic.

Bob Crane

I always had acting in the back of my mind.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

I own half a million dollars worth of-houses in California. That's a lot for an unemployed actor.

Bob Crane

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.'

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

When I blow a line at Disney I say, 'Oh fudge,' instead of what is really on mind.

Bob Crane

I had done as much as I could on radio and I was too young to die. So I went on television.

Bob Crane

I try to play Hogan in an off-hand throwing lines way.

Bob Crane

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

Bob Crane

Well, I take my drums everywhere I go so I can play them for relaxation.

Bob Crane

I don't go for the wild stuff like bell-bottoms.

Bob Crane

I'm not slim and trim like Johnny Carson.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

People used to think I was out of my mind.

Bob Crane

I feel the really big stars are in movies, not TV.

Bob Crane

All in the Family' changed everything.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What's wrong with that?

Bob Crane

The day of the 'Partridge Family' type of show and the 'Brady Bunch' is long gone. The old 'Ozzie and Harriet' days are over.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

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.

Bob Crane

I enjoy life. That doesn't mean I don't care.

Bob Crane

You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.

Bob Crane

I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn't be right for me.

Bob Crane

Maybe, realistically, in a career you have only one hit series. Maybe 'Hogan's' was mine.

Bob Crane

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.

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Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Crane

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