Actor

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!

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

I hate variety shows.

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.

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.

I've never seen a production of 'No, No Nanette' but it is sure a fun show to do.

I love diving and motorcycling!

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 know my limitations.

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

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

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

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 used to see movies where they'd put on a play in a barn, but I've never played one.

Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor - those were my idols. All I ever wanted to be was a motion picture song-and-dance man. I kind of fell into other things. Did walk-ons and bits for years and worked in little theater at night.

It was scary. I went into that with great apprehension. All you hope is that you don't hurt it. I had nothing to do with the success of 'The Andy Griffith Show.' I just hoped I wouldn't do anything wrong.

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 hate to work with another performer who reads cards. The most guilty are the people who do only a few specials a year. You'd think with so few shows they could leam the lines.

I like to get up in the morning, work during the day and go home at night.

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