Broderick Crawford Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I was always the second heavy.

I'm a lousy reader.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I've made my peace with myself.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

The play was a tremendous success except when I came out to Hollywood I found that all I could get were half-wit roles.

The prop men can see me coming. They know I'll steal anything with a mark on it.

We wanted a child. Kay kept having miscarriages. So in 1947 we decided to adopt one.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

Trivia

Played the title role in the 1977 film The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover.

Was the narrator for the 1972 film The Candidate.

Crawford reportedly worked as a stevedore on a merchant ship during his younger days.

His series, Highway Patrol, was one of the first to leave the studio and shoot on location.

Crawford is that Hollywood rarity who has two stars on the Walk of Fame. One for his television work and another for his work in movies.

Crawford guest hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live on March 19, 1977.

Crawford was 6 feet tall.

Crawford once had a cameo as himself in an episode of CHiPs.

Crawford won an Academy Award in 1949 for his performance as Willie Stark in All the King's Men. His character was based on Louisiana senator and governor Huey P. Long.

Crawford created a sensation on Broadway in 1937 with his portrayal of Lenny in Of Mice and Men but when the movie was filmed two years later he was passed over in favor of Lon Chaney, Jr.

Crawford's two son's were named Kelly and Kim. Both were adopted.