74 Quotes by Bob Crane

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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