74 Quotes by Bob Crane

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

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.

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

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.

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

You've got to feel right in what you do.

After two years with 'Donna,' they offered me a new contract, but I said no. I didn't want to be the fourth man through the door any more.

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