Actor

I hate live audiences!

There's not much call for hoofers, and that's basically what I am.

I could rob a bank and no one would notice me, but Rock Hudson! He's a movie star.

Work is not my obsession. I like to dabble, and come to think of it that's what I have been doing all my life.

To be able to sit in your living room, watch a speech live by the president, and be able to look into his eyes, and make your own decision - that's television.

It's harder and harder to find a spot within a day's drive of Los Angeles with enough vacant grass or even sand or dirt to stake a tent on.

If I try to impress a room-ful of guests by calling my answering service to see if there are any messages, they never understand my name. They think I am saying Kim Barry, and I have to repeat my name over and over.

I grew up loving movie musicals and Idolizing Fred Astalre. I never worked with Fred but I met him once at a pool hall in Van Nuys.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

I like to read the classified ads every morning. Just the cars for sale. Love to look at cars for sale, Don't buy them, of course. Just look. But I don't like to talk to people.

I like to sit in front of the fire at night, sip a beer and think.

It's hard to get past the fact that I'm working with Donald O'Connor and becoming friends with him.

It took me two years to realize I had a good solid hit with 'F Troop'... two years to be convinced I was going to stay on, and then they canceled.

I have to admit, if I had my druthers, I'd prefer one camera TV. That's what 'Mayberry R.F.D.' and 'F Troop' were. You make mistakes, you do it over again. Both of those companies were just a great lot of fun to be with.

I hooked up with Warner Bros, and I was dying to play Ensign Pulver in the 'Mr. Roberts' series, and I didn't get the part. Instead they cast the with Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in 'F Troop.'

There is more to a fall than just flopping or stumbling. You can get hurt unless you know what you're doing.

A lot of times I'll be playing roles for which I'm too long in the tooth, but people who go see musicals don't seem to worry too much about that.

I like getting up when everyone else does and going home when everyone else does.

It was just a series of accidents that I became an actor. My first job was when a friend called and said he was putting together a song and dance group for the 'Gale Storm Show.' The role also involved a few lines. Then a man's wife, who had seen me in that, recommended me for a job she was doing.

When 'Mama's Family' was canceled, I was stunned that the phone didn't ring anymore.